prothonotary

Etymology
, from, from , from + , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A chief legal clerk or notary in Roman Byzantium, and (hence) in Rome.
 * 2)  One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.
 * 3) A registrar or chief clerk in various courts of law, especially  in a county court,  in certain state Supreme Courts,  in Federal Court.
 * 4) * 1808–10,, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 231:
 * I accordingly did direct him how to enter an appearance with the prothonotary and to obtain a copy of the plaint or declaration.
 * 1)  The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.
 * 1)  The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.