Other forms: registrars
A registrar is the official who keeps formal records. The registrar of births, the university registrar, see the registrar.
In Britain a registrar records births, deaths and marriages, and a wedding is legally the signing in front of one. In hospitals the same word is a doctor's rank between junior and consultant, which is a different job entirely.
1nounregistrarThe official who keeps formal records.
“We gave our names to the registrar, who recorded the birth of our daughter.”
registrar is an official.
Medieval Latin registrarius comes from registrum, a register, from regerere, to record.
Built from
From Medieval Latin - registrārius, from registrum (“register”) + -ārius (“agent of use”). See more at register. by surface analysis, register//registry + -ar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA