proselytus

From the Ancient Greek προσήλυτος (prosḗlutos, “one that has arrived at [a place]”, “stranger”, “sojourner”; “one who has come over to Judaism”, “convert”, “proselyte”), from προσέρχομαι (prosérkhomai).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proˈseː.ly.tus/, [prɔˈs̠eːlʲʏt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈse.li.tus/, [proˈs̬ɛːlit̪us]

prosēlytus (feminine prosēlyta, neuter prosēlytum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) come from abroad, foreign, strange

First/second-declension adjective.

• prosēlyta

prosēlytus m (genitive prosēlytī, feminine prosēlyta); second declension

1. (Late Latin) a sojourner, a stranger in the land
2. (and especially, post-Classical) one that has come over from heathenism to the Jewish religion, a proselyte

Second-declension noun.

• “prŏsēlytus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• proselytus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.