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“profession” in Latin
professiōdeclaration, avowal, profession (act of professing); occupation, profession (professional employment)arsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemdisciplīnateaching, instruction, education; training; learning, knowledge, discipline, science, studymedicīnusOf or pertaining to doctors and healing; medical, medicinalhonestusfull of or regarded with honor; honorable; of high birth; noble; distinguished; respectable; eminent; bring or deservingēlegānsfine, elegant, handsome; tasteful; fastidious, critical
The English word profession itself goes back to Latin fateor, through professiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
profession
Avowal, professio (e.g., bonae voluntatis).
An employment, learned avocation, ars; disciplina: the profession of arms, disciplina militaris: the profession of medicine, medicina: to follow the profession of medicine, medicinam profiteri: the liberal professions, artes ingenuae, liberates, honestae or elegantes; studia liberalia: to study a profession, arti alicui studere: to follow a profession, artem colere, factitare; in arte versari, se exercere (exercere artem, doubtful, Krebs): to relinquish a profession, artem desinere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for profession?
- The usual Latin words for “profession” are professiō, ars, disciplīna; also medicīnus, honestus, ēlegāns. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.