The story
- French · borrowed fromlazariste
- English todayLazarist
From French lazariste, from Lazare + -iste (“-ist”), from the order's first large headquarters, the Enclos Saint-Lazare (“St Lazarus Enclosure”) in Paris, derived from its former use as a Hospitaller leprosarium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.