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• professour (archaic)

語源

From 中期英語 professor, professour, from Anglo-Norman proffessur and its etymon Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”). By surface analysis, profess +‎ -or.

発音

• (Western) IPA: /pɹəˈfɛsɚ/, 韻: -ɛsə(ɹ)
• (North India) IPA: /prɵˈfɛsə(r)/
• (South India) IPA: /ˈprɵfəsə(r)/

名詞

professor (plural professors)

1. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.

   Synonyms: prof, Prof.

   • 2014 November 22, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, “What is the difference between a research professor and a professor”, in Quora‎:

     Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.

2. (US, Philippines, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
3. (archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
   • 1660, William Petty, Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland, p. 170/1:

     As for Religion, I have not said, much lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof.

   • 1897, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (transl.) The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Introduction, p. v:

     This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;

4. (obsolete) A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill.
   • 1592, Robert Green, The Thirde & Last Part of Conny-catching, Bodleian Library (Malone 575), London: John Lane. Reprinted in 1923, Harrison, G. B. (ed.), The Bodley Head Quartos III, Plainstow, Great Britain: Curwen Press, p. 29

     Two young men of familiar acquaintance [...] were one euening at a common Inne of this town (as I haue heard) where the one of them shewed his skill on the Virginals, to the no little contentement of the hearers. Nowe as diuers guests of the house came into the room to listen, so among the rest entered an artificiall Conny-catcher, who as occasion serued, in the time of ceissing betweene the seueral toyes and fancies hee plaid: very much commended his cunning, quicke hand, and such qualities praiseworthy in such a professour.

5. (US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 415:

     You could hear [...] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.

6. The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.

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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [prɔˈfɛs.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [proˈfɛs.sor]

名詞

professor m (genitive professōris, feminine profestrīx); third declension

1. teacher, professor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “professor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• professor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016