converso

From Spanish converso. Doublet of converse.

converso (plural conversos)

1. (history) A Jew or Muslim in Spain or Portugal who converted to Roman Catholicism under duress, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries.
   • 2007 January 20, Sam Roberts, “New Favor for a Name That Straddles Cultures”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Guillermina Jasso, a sociology professor at New York University, said Angel was “evocative of the old converso practice of taking on very Christian surnames as a way of survival in a suspicious environment.”

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, pages 672–3:

     In the Inquisition's terms, both were automatically suspect by the fact that their families were conversos, and they might be seen as emerging from that maelstrom of religious energy released by the religious realignment of Spain in the 1490s.

• converso on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Conovers

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kumˈbɛr.su]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koɱˈvɛr.so]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koɱˈvɛɾ.so]

converso

1. first-person singular present indicative of conversar

converso

1. first-person singular present indicative of conversar

• IPA^(key): /konˈvɛr.so/
• Rhymes: -ɛrso
• Hyphenation: con‧vèr‧so

converso

1. second-person singular present indicative of conversare

converso (feminine conversa, masculine plural conversi, feminine plural converse)

1. past participle of convergere

• per converso

• conservo, conservò

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈwɛr.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱˈvɛr.so]

From convertō +‎ -tō, with *-t-t- across morpheme boundaries changed by a regular morphophonological rule into *-s-s-, which is changed by a regular phonological rule into simple -s- after a consonant (see the usage notes at -tus for more), as in the perfect passive participle conversus.

conversō (present infinitive conversāre, perfect active conversāvī, supine conversātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to turn around or over

Not to be confused with the more common deponent verb conversor.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

conversō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of conversus

• “converso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “converso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• converso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

converso m (plural conversos, feminine conversa, feminine plural conversas)

1. converso

converso

1. first-person singular present indicative of conversar

• IPA^(key): /komˈbeɾso/ [kõmˈbeɾ.so]
• Rhymes: -eɾso
• Syllabification: con‧ver‧so

From Latin conversus.

converso m (plural conversos, feminine conversa, feminine plural conversas)

1. convert; converso

• → English: converso

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

converso

1. first-person singular present indicative of conversar

• “converso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024