Pronounced: uh-GRESS, verb
Notes: I didn’t know this word existed, but you can probably guess the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word amaneunsis is “a person employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
I happen to know the word from some reading, but I don’t know how well known it is. Our word came from the Latin phrase servus a manu (slave at handwriting).
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