profor
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈprɔ.fɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈprɔː.for]
Verb
profor (present infinitive profārī or profārier, perfect active profātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to speak out
- 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horatius, Sermonum Liber I 1.6:
- Infans namque pudor prohibebat plura profari...
- Speechless and for bashfulness prohibited that I speak out many things...
- Infans namque pudor prohibebat plura profari...
Conjugation
Conjugation of profor (first conjugation, deponent)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | profor | profāris, profāre |
profātur | profāmur | profāminī | profantur | ||||||
| imperfect | profābar | profābāris, profābāre |
profābātur | profābāmur | profābāminī | profābantur | |||||||
| future | profābor | profāberis, profābere |
profābitur | profābimur | profābiminī | profābuntur | |||||||
| perfect | profātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | profātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | profātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | profer | profēris, profēre |
profētur | profēmur | profēminī | profentur | ||||||
| imperfect | profārer | profārēris, profārēre |
profārētur | profārēmur | profārēminī | profārentur | |||||||
| perfect | profātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | profātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | profāre | — | — | profāminī | — | ||||||
| future | — | profātor | profātor | — | — | profantor | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | profārī, profārier1 |
— | profāns | — | |||||||||
| future | profātūrum esse | — | profātūrus | profandus | |||||||||
| perfect | profātum esse | — | profātus | — | |||||||||
| future perfect | profātum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | profātūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| profandī | profandō | profandum | profandō | profātum | profātū | ||||||||
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
References
- “profor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “profor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “profor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.