professus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of prŏfiteor.

Participle

prŏfessus (feminine prŏfessa, neuter prŏfessum); first/second-declension participle

1. 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 [those] having been declared.
     (Prostitution in Ancient Rome: Prostitutes were required to declare or register themselves with the aedile.)

2. promised

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	prŏfessus	prŏfessa	prŏfessum		prŏfessī	prŏfessae	prŏfessa
genitive	prŏfessī	prŏfessae	prŏfessī		prŏfessōrum	prŏfessārum	prŏfessōrum
dative	prŏfessō	prŏfessae	prŏfessō		prŏfessīs
accusative	prŏfessum	prŏfessam	prŏfessum		prŏfessōs	prŏfessās	prŏfessa
ablative	prŏfessō	prŏfessā	prŏfessō		prŏfessīs
vocative	prŏfesse	prŏfessa	prŏfessum		prŏfessī	prŏfessae	prŏfessa

Descendants

• → Old Galician-Portuguese: profeso, professo
  • Galician: profeso
  • Portuguese: professo

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.