conversus

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conversus

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin conversus.

noun conversi

historical A lay brother. 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.

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@misc{conversus_2026,
  title = {conversus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/conversus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}