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adverb

profectō

profectō (not comparable)

Meaning

  1. not comparableactually, indeed, really, truly, surely, assuredly, of course
    'Absque te' inquit 'uno, forsitan lingua profecto Graeca longe anteisset, sed tu, mi Fronto, quod in uersu Homerico est, id facis: καί νύ κεν ἢ παρέλασσας ἢ ἀμφήριστον ἔθηκας.He said, "without you alone, maybe the Greek language would have indeed won, but my dear Fronto, you do what appears in that verse by Homer: He would've made of it either a (victorious) parade or a source of doubt (for the supposed enemy victory) (Iliad 23.527).c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.26

prŏfectō, adv. pro-facto, a particle of affirmation, confirmation, and declaration,
I. actually, indeed, really, truly, surely, assuredly, by all means, certainly, etc. (very freq. and class.): neque di regunt neque profecto deūm summus rex omnibus curat, Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 59 (Trag. Rel v 142 Rib.): profecto edepol, Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 7: profecto, ut loquor, res ita est, id. Am. 2, 1, 19: non est ita, judices, non est profecto, Cic. Fl. 22, 53: retorquet oculos profecto, id. Cat. 2, 1, 2: profecto negare non potes, id. Verr 2, 2, 18, § 44: nunc quidem profecto Romae es, id. Att. 6, 5, 1 init.: si modo di sunt, ut profecto sunt, id. N. D. 2, 31, 78: meministi enim profecto, id. Lael. 1, 2; Hor. A. P. 315; Curt. 8, 3, 4; cf. Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20; 1, 12, 41; 4, 24, 66; id. Sest. 7, 17; id. Cat. 3, 10, 23; Liv 1, 15; 44, 2; 54, 1.—Strengthened by other particles; profecto hercle, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 29: vere enim profecto, Eum. Pan. Const. 7

Origins

Univerbation of prō factō, "indeed".

Quick answers

What does profectō mean in Latin?
profectō, a adverb, means “actually, indeed, really, truly, surely, assuredly, of course”.