A fun quirk of history, embedded in the English language, is the fact that "cleric" (meaning "a member of the clergy") has the same Latin root as "clerk" (meani

A fun quirk of history, embedded in the English language, is the fact that "cleric" (meaning "a member of the clergy") has the same Latin root as "clerk" (meaning a worker who is trained and literate). Of course they both have the same adjectival form: clerical.