意味(日本語)

書記 ◇L.servus a manu(＝slave at hand writing)、ensis(＝belinging to)

語源

• man(u)- : L.manus = hand(手)

意味(英語)

• (noun) One who is employed to take dictation or to copy manuscript.

例文

• Which amanuensis is a drunken, bankrupt village grocer, of whom my son-in-law is one of the defrauded creditors – Mr. L — having intrusted him with about forty pounds 'worth of the plantation rice, to sell on commission for him, which rice, indeed, was sold, but was never accounted for, and as the man is a bankrupt, never will be.