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proselytus
proselytus
Latin
Adjective
prosēlytus m (feminine prosēlyta, neuter prosēlytum); first/second declension
- (Late Latin) come from abroad, foreign, strange
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | prosēlytus | prosēlyta | prosēlytum | prosēlytī | prosēlytae | prosēlyta | |
| genitive | prosēlytī | prosēlytae | prosēlytī | prosēlytōrum | prosēlytārum | prosēlytōrum | |
| dative | prosēlytō | prosēlytō | prosēlytīs | ||||
| accusative | prosēlytum | prosēlytam | prosēlytum | prosēlytōs | prosēlytās | prosēlyta | |
| ablative | prosēlytō | prosēlytā | prosēlytō | prosēlytīs | |||
| vocative | prosēlyte | prosēlyta | prosēlytum | prosēlytī | prosēlytae | prosēlyta | |
Derived terms
Noun
prosēlytus m (genitive prosēlytī); second declension
- (Late Latin) a sojourner, a stranger in the land
- (and especially, post-classical) one that has come over from heathenism to the Jewish religion, a proselyte
Declension
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | prosēlytus | prosēlytī |
| genitive | prosēlytī | prosēlytōrum |
| dative | prosēlytō | prosēlytīs |
| accusative | prosēlytum | prosēlytōs |
| ablative | prosēlytō | prosēlytīs |
| vocative | prosēlyte | prosēlytī |
References
- prŏsēlytus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “proselytus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.