κλῆρος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">lot, allotment, inheritance, piece of ground</b> (Il.), <b class="b2">(Christian) clergy</b> (Just.).<br />Other forms: Dor. <b class="b3">κλᾶρος</b><br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">κληρο-</b>, <b class="b3">κλαρο-νόμος</b> [[heir]] with <b class="b3">-νομέω</b>, <b class="b3">-νομία</b>, <b class="b3">-νομικός</b> a. o. (IA, Dor.); <b class="b3">ἄ-κληρος</b> <b class="b2">without lot, without inheritance, poor</b> (λ 490); but <b class="b3">ναύ-κληρος</b>, <b class="b3">-κλαρος</b> from <b class="b3">ναύ-κραρος</b> (s. v.); after this also <b class="b3">ὁλό-κληρος</b> [[complete]] (IA.) from <b class="b3">*ὁλό-κραρος</b>? (Debrunner Phil. 95, 174ff.); against this with good grounds W. den Boer Mnemos. 3 : 13, 143f.<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">κληρίον</b> (AP, pap.), Dor. <b class="b3">κλαρίον</b> [[notes for debt]] (Plu. Agis 13); adj. <b class="b3">κληρικός</b> <b class="b2">belonging to a\/the κλ.</b> (Vett. Val.); denomin. verb <b class="b3">κληρόω</b>, <b class="b3">κλαρόω</b> [[cast lots]], [[choose by lot]], midd. [[have allotted one]], [[obtain by lot]] (IA., Dor.) with <b class="b3">κλήρωσις</b> [[choosing by lot]], <b class="b3">κληρωτήριον</b> [[urn for casting lots]], [[room for voting]], <b class="b3">κληρωτός</b> <b class="b2">who can\/is chosen by lot</b> (IA.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Prop. "sherd of stone, piece of wood" (used as lot). Identical with a Celtic word for [[table]]: OIr. [[clār]], Welsh [[claur]], and as expression of the cartwright Bret. [[kleur]] <b class="b2">pitch-fork of a wagon</b>; the Celtic words seem only very remotely cognate if at all (a [[table]] is hardly a piece broken off). Connected with <b class="b3">κλάω</b> [[break off]] with the same ablaut as in <b class="b3">κλῆ-μα</b>, <b class="b3">κλᾶ-μα</b>, Lat. <b class="b2">clā-d-ēs</b>. Further s. <b class="b3">κλάω</b>, but see my doubts there.