German

Noun

Clerus m ‎(genitive Clerus, no plural)

1. Obsolete spelling of Klerus which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.

Latin

Noun

clērus m ‎(genitive clērī); second declension

1. clergy

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• clēricus

Descendants

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

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “clerus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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