Sekretariat
German (Berlin)
/ze.kre.ta.riˈaːt/
noun
Definitions
- a central office in any business or institution (or a department thereof), responsible for correspondence, making appointments, and general administrative support
- secretariat
Etymology
Derived from French secrétariat derived from Latin secretariatus.
Origin
Latin
secretariatus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- secretariat English
- secretariatus Latin
- sēcrētārius Latin
- secretariaat Dutch, Flemish
- secrétariat French
- *krey- Proto-Indo-European
- generalsekretariat Swedish
- sekretariat Swedish
- sekretariat Polish
- sekretariat Danish
- secretariat Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan