clerus

== Latin == === Etymology === From (Ecclesiastical) Ancient Greek κλῆρος (klêros, “a casting lots, drawing lots”). === Noun === clērus m (genitive clērī); second declension clergy ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== clēricus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “clerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "clerus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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