profectus Latin · revision 32560

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la faciō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōfectus''' ''m'' (genitive prōfectūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prōficiō|-tus|t1=to make progress]], an action noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|prōficiō]] is from [[m|la|prō-]] and [[m|la|faciō|t=to make]], which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*dʰh₁-k-|t=to make]], from the root [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to put]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Varro writes that whatever profit the owner gets from his land should be credited to farming.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has ⟨sine prōfectū⟩, without success.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is progress, headway, success, and material gain.^(OLD 2012) Charisius distinguishes it from the noun of departure, and Augustine notes that it is usually taken in a good sense.^(TLL) Ausonius scans the first syllable short.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) In medieval Latin it is moral progress, edification, and also interest, advantage.^(Niermeyer 1976) English [[m|en|profit]] comes from it through Old French ⟨prufit⟩, in the 13th century.^(Etymonline) Church Latin glosses it growth, increase, progress.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of profit from land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 362 AD – Charisius distinguishes it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-13th century – English ''profit'', through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|progress|alt=Progress]], headway, advance, [[m|en|success]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Material advancement, [[m|en|profit]], increase.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Moral progress, edification; advantage, benefit.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[proficio|alt=prōficiō]]

+ * [[en|profit]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''profectus'' is also the participle of [[proficiscor|alt=proficīscor]], "having set out", and the TLL has a rare noun ''profectus'' from that verb, "departure", which glossaries explain as a journey abroad.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}