Where does “professorat” come from?
professorat (French) comes from Catalan professor, from Latin professor, from Latin profiteor, from Latin prō-, from Proto-Italic *pro-, from Proto-Indo-European pro-, from Proto-Indo-European por-, from Proto-Indo-European per- — passed , crossed.
professorat (French): professorship; the teaching profession
Definitions
- professorship; the teaching profession
Ancestry of “professorat”, step by step
professorat traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan professor
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | professor | professor; teacher |
| 2 | Latin | professor | teacher, professor |
| 3 | Latin | profiteor | I declare publicly, own or confess openly,... |
| 4 | Latin | prō- | forward direction, forward movement |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | pro- see the Latin entry for further meanings |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via French professeur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | professeur | teacher; professor |
| 2 | French | -ál | al; appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form; often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also |
| 3 | Latin | -ālis | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ālis | forms relational adjectives |
via Norwegian Bokmål professor
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | professor | professor, the highest academic rank at a... |