proselyta

prŏsēlytus, a, um, = prosêlutos, come from abroad, foreign, strange (late Lat.):

numeravit Salomon omnes viros proselytos,

Vulg. 2 Par. 2, 17.—Hence, as subst.,

1.

prŏsēlytus, i, m.

I.

A sojourner, a stranger in the land:

proselyti et advenae,

Vulg. Tob. 1, 7; id. Ezech. 14, 7.—

II.

Esp., one that has come over from heathenism to the Jewish religion, a proselyte (postclass.), Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 21; Hier. Ep. 64, n. 8; Vulg. Matt. 23, 15; Inscr. Fabr. p. 465, n. 101.—

2.

prŏsēlyta, ae, f., a female proselyte, converted woman, Inscr. Orell. 25, 22.