Etymology of the English word professor
the English word
professorderived from the Old French word
professeurderived from the Latin word
professorderived from the Church Latin word
professusderived from the Latin word
profiteri (declare; profess)
derived from the New Latin word
pro-using the Greek prefix
pro-, προ- (before)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*perderived from the Latin word
fateri (admit, confess)
derived from the Latin word
fari (speak, talk; say)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*bha-derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*bhā-Derivations in English
professorate,
professorshipCognates
Dutch
professor, French
professeur, German
Professor, Icelandic
prófessor, Italian
professore, Latin
professor, Lithuanian
profesorius, Polish
profesor, Russian
профессор, Swedish
professorUsage
Word found in Modern English
