Topic summary
Protonotarios
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Prothonotary.
A prothonotary is the "principal clerk of a court," from Late Latinprothonotarius (c. 400), from Greek protonotarios "first scribe," originally the chief of the college of recorders of the court of the Byzantine Empire, from Greekπρῶτοςprotos "first" + Latinnotarius ("notary"); the h appeared in Medieval Latin. The title was awarded to certain high-ranking notaries, and was first recorded in the English language in 1447.