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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of prŏfiteor.
Participle
prŏfessus (feminine prŏfessa, neuter prŏfessum); first/second-declension participle
- confessed, acknowledged, avowed, professed, declared
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.865–866:
- nūmina volgārēs Veneris celebrātē puellae:
multa professārum quaestibus apta Venus.- Praise the divine will of Venus for a young woman, if you are prostituting: Venus is very favorable to the earnings of having been declared.
(Prostitution in Ancient Rome: Prostitutes were required to declare or register themselves with the aedile.)
- promised
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “professus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “professus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- professus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- professus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.