PROTOCOL

(From the Latin protocol lum: a word derived from the Greek -npwros, first, and Ko)t\a, glue; but the etymological signification attached to this derivation seems unknown.) The word protocol, in the French language, signifies the formulae or technical words of legal instruments in; Germany, it has been used to denote tho minutes or rough draught of an instrument or transaction. It is in the latter sense that the word has been borrowed by diplomacy, in which it signifies the original copy of any dispatch, treaty, or other document. [s. 1012]