clerus

From (Ecclesiastical) Ancient Greek κλῆρος (klêros, “a casting lots, drawing lots”).

clērus m (genitive clērī); second declension

1. clergy

Second-declension noun.

• clēricus

• German: Klerus
• Italian: clero
• Old Galician-Portuguese: crero
  • Portuguese: clero
• Spanish: clero

• “clerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• clerus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• clerus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “clerus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “clerus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin