From en.wiktionary.org:
[Profession]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], [en], from [en], from the participle stem of [la].
[en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A declaration of faith.
1. [en] A promise or vow made on entering a religious order. [from 12th c.]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1796 | author=Matthew Lewis | title=The Monk | page=27 | publisher=Folio Society | year_published=1985
|passage=Rosario was a young novice belonging to the monastery, who in three
months intended to make his PROFESSION.}}
1. The declaration of belief in the principles of a religion ; hence, one's faith or religion . [from 16th c.]
2. * 1780 , [William Cowper] , letter, 12 June:
3. *: I congratulate you upon the wisdom that withheld you from entering yourself a member of the Protestant Association [...] it is likely to bring an odium upon the PROFESSION they make, that will not soon be forgotten.
4. Any declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or (as now often implied) pretended. [from 16th c.]
5. * [page=126]
1. A professional occupation.
1. An occupation , trade , craft , or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job , especially one requiring a high level of skill or training. [from 15th c.]
2. * [page=4]
3. [en] The practitioners of such an occupation collectively. [from 17th c.]
**** Derived terms
{{col2|en |liberal profession|learned profession |professional|oldest
profession in the world |professionless |oldest profession |world's oldest
profession |helping profession |pseudoprofession |semiprofession |caring
profession|profession of faith}}
**** Translations
[declaration of faith, belief or opinion]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] [of faith] , [fi] , [fi] [of opinion]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Romanian: [ro] [of faith]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Telugu: [te]
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[occupation]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Odia: [or]
- Oromo: [om]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sami:
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[practitioners of a profession collectively]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[promise or vow made on entering a religious order]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr] (accusative singular [la]).
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] , public declaration
1. [en] , public declaration of faith
2. [en] , occupation , trade , craft , activity
3. [en] , practitioners of a profession collectively
**** Derived terms
{{col|fr |profession de foi |professionnalisation |professionnaliser
|professionnalisme |professionnellement |professionnel,professionnelle }}
**** Related terms
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Old French
*** Alternative forms
- [fro] [Anglo-Norman]
- [fro] [Anglo-Norman]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [fro].
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] ; declaration (usually of faith)
*** References
- [supplement=1]