Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a scribe, secretary, or cleric. · A male given name transferred from the surname. · An unincorporated community in Routt County, Colorado. · A minor city in Randolph County, Missouri; named for Confederate general John Bullock Clark Jr..
From Old English clerc (“clergyman; learned man”), whence also clerk.
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- Derivation mentionclercang
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