convertite

English

Etymology

Compare Italian convertito, past participle of convertire (“to convert”).

Noun

convertite (plural convertites)

1. (obsolete) A reformed or former prostitute.
2. (obsolete) A convert.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, lines 743-744:

     He thence departs a heavy convertite; / She remains a hopeless castaway

   • c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Bar. Oh earth-mettall'd villaines, and no Hebrews born!
     And will you basely thus submit your selves
     To leave your goods to their arbitrament?
     Gov. Why Barabas wilt thou be christned?
     Bar. No, Governour, I will be no convertite.
     

   • 1817, [Walter Scott], “(please specify the page)”, in Harold the Dauntless; […], Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     Up then arose that grim convertite,
     Homeward he hied him when ended the rite

References

• “convertite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

convertite

1. feminine plural of convertito

Participle

convertite f pl

1. feminine plural of convertito

Etymology 2

Noun

convertite f

1. plural of convertita

Etymology 3

Verb

convertite

1. inflection of convertire:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Latin

Verb

convertite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of convertō

Spanish

Verb

convertite

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of convertir combined with te