converso

See also: conversó and conversò

English

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Doublet of converse.

Noun

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:
      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.

See also

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

converso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of conversar

Galician

Verb

converso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of conversar

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

converso

  1. second-person singular present indicative of conversare

Participle

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

  1. past participle of convergere

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

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

  1. (transitive) to turn around or over
Usage notes

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

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

conversō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of conversus

References

  • 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

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kõˈvɛʁ.su/ [kõˈvɛh.su]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /kõˈvɛɾ.su/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /kõˈvɛʁ.su/ [kõˈvɛχ.su]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kõˈvɛɻ.so/
 

Noun

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

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Verb

converso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of conversar

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin conversus.

Noun

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

  1. convert; Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

converso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of conversar

Further reading

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