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Where does “profit” come from?

profit (Old French) comes from Latin profectus, from Latin proficiscor, from Latin proficio, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.

Ancestry of “profit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinprofectusadvance, progress, effect, increase, growth,...
2LatinproficiscorI set out, depart, leave
3LatinproficioI advance, make progress, make headway; I...
4Latinfaciō—
5Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
6Latin-tōrius—
7Latin-tor-er
8Proto-Italic-tōr—
9Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
10Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “profit”

  • profit
  • nonprofit
  • unprofitable
  • profitless
  • profiteering
  • profiteth
  • unprofitably
  • profiteer
  • unprofitableness
  • profitmaking
  • profiter
  • profitseeking
  • unprofit
  • profitlessly
  • profiterole
  • profitlessness
  • disprofit
  • superprofit
  • profitest
  • profitwise
  • antiprofiteering
  • megaprofit
  • profitsome
  • for-profit
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