“...Unfortunately sacerd fell out of English usage...”
Interesting. The spanish word for priest is still sacerdote. I don’t know much Spanish, I just looked it up, but assume it must have some root relationship with the word sacerd.
The root words are the Latin presbyter (a transliteration from the Greek) and sacerdos, sacerdotal ("giver of the sacred", a general term for sacrificial priests).
22 posted on 12/17/2014 6:28:38 PM PST by Petrosius