prosélito
Portuguese, noun
prosélito is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “proselyte (one who has recently converted to a religion or doctrine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, proselito is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of proselitar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que se converteu a uma religião ou seita”.
What does prosélito mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineproselyte (one who has recently converted to a religion or doctrine)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of proselitar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. termo empregado na antiguidade para a pessoa que abjurava suas crenças para adotar a religião judaica 2. pessoa que se converteu a uma religião ou seita 3. adepto, partidário; pessoa que abraçou uma seita, uma doutrina, um partido
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of prosélito
- prosélitos plural
- prosélita feminine
- prosélitas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to prosélito
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prosélito in Portuguese?
prosélito appears about once in every 62 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).