different between adherent vs proselyte

English

Alternative forms

• adhærent (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaer?ns, present participle of adhaere? (“to stick to, cling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æd?(h)????nt/, /?d-/

Adjective

adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)

1. Adhesive, sticking to something.
2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
3. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.

Synonyms

• adhering

Related terms

• adhere
• adherence
• adhesive
• coherent
• inherent

Translations

Noun

adherent (plural adherents)

1. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

Translations

Anagrams

• Renthead, anthered, hand tree, hartened, neatherd, threaden

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin adhaer?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.d???ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.d???en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.de??ent/

Adjective

adherent (masculine and feminine plural adherents)

1. adherent

Noun

adherent m or f (plural adherents)

1. adherent

Related terms

• adherència
• adherir

Further reading

• “adherent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Verb

adh?rent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adh?re?

Polish

Etymology

From French adhérent, from Latin adhaer?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at?x?.r?nt/

Noun

adherent m pers (feminine adherentka)

1. (dated) adherent, henchman, supporter

   Synonym: stronnik

Declension

Related terms

• (noun) adherencja

Further reading

• adherent in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• adherent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adx?rent/
• Hyphenation: ad?he?rent

Noun

adhèrent m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. adherent

Declension

Synonyms

• (follower): prìstalica, pr?staša, sl?dben?k/slj?dben?k

English

Etymology

From Old French proselite, from Late Latin proselutus (proselytus, “proselyte, alien resident”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pros?lutos, “newcomer, convert”) (from ???? (prós, “to, towards”) and the stem -???- of ??????? (el?lutha), perfect of ??????? (érkhomai, “come”)), translation of Hebrew ??? (ger) in the Septuagint translation of the Torah (e.g., Exodus 12:49); also used in Matthew 23:15, Acts 2:10, Acts 6:5.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??s.?l?a?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??s.?l?a?t/

Noun

proselyte (plural proselytes)

1. One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism.
   • King James Bible, Matthew 23:15:

     Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Translations

Verb

proselyte (third-person singular simple present proselytes, present participle proselyting, simple past and past participle proselyted)

1. (transitive) To proselytize.

Derived terms

• proselyter
• proselytic
• proselytism
• proselytize

Translations

Anagrams

• polyester, polytrees

Latin

Adjective

pros?lyte

1. vocative masculine singular of pros?lytus