who is a secretary

secratary means one entrusted with secret. the word secretary is derved from the latinword secretarious signifing a notary scribe etc . a little that was applied to various confidential officers and embraced as part of the root meaning of word  the idea of secrecy . the webster's  dictionary gives the following gives the folloing meaning of the term . one who is entrusted with private or secret matter's  a confident one privy to a secret a confidential clerk especially one who attends to correspondence records etc of a private or confidential character.