| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·man·u·en·sis |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -m n y - n s s |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. a·man·u·en·ses (-s z)
One who is employed to take dictation or to copy manuscript. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin  manunsis, from the phrase (servus) man , (slave) at handwriting : , ab, by; see ab–1 + man, ablative of manus, hand; see man-2 in Appendix I.
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