profiteor

From prō- +‎ fateor (“acknowledge”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proˈfi.te.or/, [prɔˈfɪt̪eɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈfi.te.or/, [proˈfiːt̪eor]

profiteor (present infinitive profitērī, perfect active professus sum); second conjugation, deponent

1. to declare publicly, own (up to) or confess openly, acknowledge, avow, profess

   Synonyms: cōnfiteor, denuntio, nuntio, adnuntio, refero, indico, renūntiō, nū̆ncupō, prodo, ēdīcō, praedicō, cōntiōnor

2. to offer freely, promise

   Synonyms: dēspondeō, voveō, spondeō, ostentō, prōmittō, stipulor, polliceor, pangō

3. to profess, claim; to declare oneself (as), practice (as)
4. to make a show of, show, display

   Synonyms: praebeō, ostendō, ostentō, expōnō, prōferō, prōtrahō, prōpōnō, prōdō, acclārō, indicō, vulgō, gerō, praestō, coarguō, fateor

5. to make a public statement or a return of
6. to be a teacher or professor
7. to volunteer

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• infinitive: profitērei
• 2nd person singular imperative future: profitēminō

• professiō
• professor
• professus

• cōnfiteor
• diffiteor
• fateor

• “profiteor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “profiteor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• profiteor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to speak the truth, admit the truth: verum dicere, profiteri
    
  • to be a philosopher, physician by profession: philosophiam, medicinam profiteri
    
  • to be a philosopher, physician by profession: se philosophum, medicum (esse) profiteri
    
  • men of that profession: qui ista profitentur
    
  • to be a follower, disciple of some one: disciplinam alicuius profiteri
    
  • to profess an art: artem profiteri
    
  • to become a candidate: nomen profiteri or simply profiteri
    
  • to enlist oneself: nomen (nomina) dare, profiteri
    
• profiteor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016