stenographer, amanuensis, shorthand typist
(noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
amanuensis (plural amanuenses)
One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts.
A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.
Source: Wiktionary
A*man`u*en"sis, n.; pl. Amanuenses. Etym: [L., fr. a, ab + manus hand.]
Definition: A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 June 2025
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
