English → Latin
“professor” in Latin
professorteacher, professorprofiteorto declare publicly, own (up to) or confess openly, acknowledge, avow, profess; to offer freely, promise; to profess, cl
The English word professor itself goes back to Latin fateor, through professor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
professor
professor (Plin.; e.g., eloquentiae, civilis juris). To be a professor, profiteri (post-Augustin; e.g., translatus est in Siciliam, ubi nunc profitetur, Plin., Ep., 4, 11): to blame any branch of study for the faults of its professors, studium quodpiam vituperare propter eorum vitia, qui in eo studio sunt (Auct. ad Her., 2, 27, 44). To be professor of history, *historiam publica auctoritate tradere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for professor?
- The usual Latin words for “professor” are professor, profiteor. 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.