неофит

Borrowed from French néophyte, from Latin neophytus, from Koine Greek νεόφυτος (neóphutos, “newly planted, (figuratively) new convert”). Piecewise root cognate with новоприбы́вший (novopribývšij).

• IPA^(key): [nʲɪɐˈfʲit]

неофи́т • (neofít) m anim (genitive неофи́та, nominative plural неофи́ты, genitive plural неофи́тов, female equivalent неофи́тка, relational adjective неофи́тский)

1. neophyte (in various senses)

• неофи́тский (neofítskij), неофи́тство n (neofítstvo)

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “неофит”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.