Hypertext Webster Gateway: "amanuensis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Amanuensis \A*man`u*en"sis\, n.; pl. {Amanuenses}. [L., fr. a,
ab + manus hand.]
A person whose employment is to write what another dictates,
or to copy what another has written.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
amanuensis
n : someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially
dictation) [syn: {stenographer}, {shorthand typist}]
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