conversus

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin conversus.

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: […]

Perfect passive participle of convertō.

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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

• “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, 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