Translation
priest, clergyman
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Examples
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The priest spoke to the whole village.
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We met an old priest beside the church.
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The priest blessed the children.
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Her brother became a priest ten years ago.
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The priest read from the holy book.
is the general-purpose clergyman, not tied to any one denomination, which is very much in the spirit of a language built to be neutral ground. The usual endings apply: o for a woman, o for the clergy as a body, o for the office itself. The root turns up often in the nineteenth-century texts that shaped the early corpus, which is part of why it sits this high in the frequency list. Note that is built from (to pray), not from .
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 13: pastro, frua, devigi and 7 more words.