# converso
## English
### Etymology

From Spanish converso. Doublet of converse.

### Noun

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: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

* converso on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Conovers

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kumˈbɛr.su]
* IPA: (Balearic) [koɱˈvɛr.so]
* IPA: (Valencia) [koɱˈvɛɾ.so]

### Verb

converso
* first-person singular present indicative of conversar

## Galician
### Verb

converso
* first-person singular present indicative of conversar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konˈvɛr.so/
* Rhymes: -ɛrso
* Hyphenation: con‧vèr‧so

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

converso
* second-person singular present indicative of conversare

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

converso (feminine conversa, masculine plural conversi, feminine plural converse)
* past participle of convergere

##### Related terms

* per converso

### Anagrams

* conservo, conservò

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /konˈu̯er.soː/, [kɔnˈu̯ɛrs̠oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /konˈver.so/, [koɱˈvɛrso]

### 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
* (transitive) to turn around or over

##### Usage notes

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

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

conversō
* 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: /kõˈvɛʁ.su/ [kõˈvɛh.su]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kõˈvɛʁ.su/ [kõˈvɛh.su]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kõˈvɛɾ.su/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kõˈvɛʁ.su/ [kõˈvɛχ.su]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kõˈvɛɻ.so/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõˈvɛɾ.su/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõˈvɛɾ.su/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /kõˈbɛɾ.su/

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

converso
* first-person singular present indicative of conversar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /komˈbeɾso/ [kõmˈbeɾ.so]
* Rhymes: -eɾso
* Syllabification: con‧ver‧so

### Etymology 1

From Latin conversus.

#### Noun

converso m (plural conversos, feminine conversa, feminine plural conversas)
* convert; converso

##### Descendants

* → English: converso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

converso
* first-person singular present indicative of conversar

### Further reading

* “converso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014