converso
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish converso. Doublet of converse.
Noun edit
converso (plural conversos)
- (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.
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Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [kumˈbɛr.su]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [koɱˈvɛr.so]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [koɱˈvɛɾ.so]
Verb edit
converso
Galician edit
Verb edit
converso
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
converso
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
converso (feminine conversa, masculine plural conversi, feminine plural converse)
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈu̯er.soː/, [kɔnˈu̯ɛrs̠oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈver.so/, [koɱˈvɛrso]
Etymology 1 edit
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.
Verb edit
conversō (present infinitive conversāre, perfect active conversāvī, supine conversātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to turn around or over
Usage notes edit
Not to be confused with the more common deponent verb conversor.
Conjugation edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle edit
conversō
References edit
- “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.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
converso m (plural conversos, feminine conversa, feminine plural conversas)
Etymology 2 edit
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converso
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
converso m (plural conversos, feminine conversa, feminine plural conversas)
Descendants edit
- → English: converso
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
converso
Further reading edit
- “converso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014