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Old Galician-Portuguese
Noun
clerigo m (plural clerigos)
- Alternative form of crerigo
Old Spanish
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin clēricus, from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós), from κλῆρος (klêros, “clergy”).
Pronunciation
Noun
clerigo m (plural clerigos)
- cleric
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1r. b.
El to clerigo almerich. a / Rçidiano de antiochẏa. réde gŕas / adios & atẏ.- Your cleric Almerich, archdeacon of Antioch, gives thanks to God and to you.
Descendants