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.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative prŏfessus prŏfessa prŏfessum prŏfessī prŏfessae prŏfessa
Genitive prŏfessī prŏfessae prŏfessī prŏfessōrum prŏfessārum prŏfessōrum
Dative prŏfessō prŏfessō prŏfessīs
Accusative prŏfessum prŏfessam prŏfessum prŏfessōs prŏfessās prŏfessa
Ablative prŏfessō prŏfessā prŏfessō prŏfessīs
Vocative prŏfesse prŏfessa prŏfessum prŏfessī prŏfessae prŏfessa

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.
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