professus

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

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.