English → Latin
“clerk” in Latin
doceōto produceērudiōto instruct, to educate; to cultivate, to refinescrībawriter, scribe, secretary, clerkministerattendant, servant, slave, waiter; agent, aide; accompliceperdoceōto teach, instruct or inform thoroughlymīruswonderful, marvelous, amazing, surprising, miraculous
The English word clerk itself goes back to Latin clēricus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
clerk
clergyman, Vid:
Scholar, doctus: doctrina instructus: eruditus. (The words are found in this connection and order), doctus atque eniditus. A great clerk, perdoctus: pereruditus: doctus atque imprimis eruditus: mire or doctissime eruditus, etc. [Vid: LEARNED.] To be a great clerk, multa doctrina esse.
Writer or other helper to a judge, tradesman. etc., scriba (scribe): minister (general term). A merchant’s clerk, mercatoris minister. Clerk of the market, agoranomus (ἀγορανόμος: at Rome, this was one office of the aedilis plebis): praefectus annonae (who presides over the sale, etc., of corn).
Parish-clerk, famulus sacrorum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for clerk?
- The usual Latin words for “clerk” are doceō, ērudiō, scrība; also minister, perdoceō, mīrus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.