The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.
Origin
Middle English prothonotarie, from Medieval Latin protonotarius, from Byzantine Greek πρωτονοτάριος, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος + Byzantine Greek νοτάριος, from Latin notārius ("notary").
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