conversus means A lay brother. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
noun
- A lay brother.“There were again the Novices, who were not all necessarily young, for a conversus passed through a noviciate; and even a monk of another order, or of another house of their own order, and even a monk from a cell of their own house, was reckoned among the novices.”