Noun: protonotary prow'tó-nu,te-ree or ,prow-tow'now-tu-ree [N. Amer], pru'tó-nu-t(u-)ree or ,prow-tu'now-tu-ree [Brit]
- The principal clerk or registrar in certain courts of law
"The protonotary was responsible for maintaining all official court records";
- prothonotary
- (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of the College of Prothonotaries Apostolic, a group of high-ranking papal officials
"As a protonotary, he had special duties in documenting papal acts";
- prothonotary
Derived forms: protonotaries
Encyclopedia: Protonotary