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conversus

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin conversus.

Noun

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conversus (plural conversi)

  1. (chiefly historical) A lay brother.
    • 1856, Edward L. Cutts, “The Monks of the Middle Ages”, in The Art-Journal, volume 2, pages 342–3:
      There were again the Novices, who were not all necessarily young, for a conversus passed through a noviciate; and even a monk of another order, or of another house of their own order, and even a monk from a cell of their own house, was reckoned among the novices.
    • 1874, Edmund Sharpe, The Architecture of the Cistercians, volume 2, page 9:
      The Conversi were, in fact, the servants of the Monks; or, as the chronicler more mildly phrases it, the Monks were the head and the Conversi were the arms of the conventual body.
    • 1995, Jennifer Carpenter, “Juette of Huy, Recluse and Mother []”, in Jennifer Carpenter, Sally-Beth MacLean, editors, Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women, →ISBN, page 74:
      A story in the early thirteenth-century vita of Arnulf (d. 1228), a conversus who was Abundus’s confrere at Villers, offers us some insight into the kind of relationship Juette and Abundus may have had: []

Latin

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Etymology

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Perfect passive participle of convertō.

Participle

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conversus (feminine conversa, neuter conversum); first/second-declension participle

  1. inverted
  2. turned over
  3. recoiled
  4. rotated
  5. reversed
  6. converted

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative conversus conversa conversum conversī conversae conversa
genitive conversī conversae conversī conversōrum conversārum conversōrum
dative conversō conversae conversō conversīs
accusative conversum conversam conversum conversōs conversās conversa
ablative conversō conversā conversō conversīs
vocative converse conversa conversum conversī conversae conversa

References

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  • conversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • conversus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) what follows has been translated into Latin from Plato's Phaedo: ex Platonis Phaedone haec in latinum conversa sunt
    • (ambiguous) the work when translated; translation (concrete): liber (scriptoris) conversus, translatus