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Where does “proficio” come from?

proficio (Latin) comes from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

proficio (Latin): I advance, make progress, make headway; I...

Definitions

  1. I advance, make progress, make headway; I...

Ancestry of “proficio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfaciō—
2Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
3Latin-tōrius—
4Latin-tor-er
5Proto-Italic-tōr—
6Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
7Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “proficio”

  • profit
  • nonprofit
  • proficient
  • unprofitable
  • profitless
  • profiteering
  • profiteth
  • unprofitably
  • profiteer
  • proficiently
  • unprofitableness
  • profitmaking
  • profiter
  • profitseeking
  • nonproficient
  • unprofit
  • profitlessly
  • profiterole
  • profitlessness
  • disprofit
  • profect
  • unproficient
  • superprofit
  • profitest
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