Professor, professôris, m. g. Suet. A reader in open schooles.Dio dorus dialecticæ professor. Plin. Sapientiæ professores. Quint. Philosophers.Magni nominis professores. Quint. Consummati professores. Quint. Professórius. Adiectioum. That belongeth to open profession or reading. vt Lingua professória. Tacit.A readers tongue or eloquence.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prŏfessor, ōris, m. [profiteor], a public teacher, professor, one who makes instruction in any branch a business (post-Aug.): sapientiae professores, Cels. praef. init.: ceterarum artium, Quint. 12, 11, 20: Latinae simul Graecaeque eloquentiae, Suet. Rhet 5; id. Gram. 9: astrologiae, Col. 1, 1, 4; 11, 1, 12: juris civilis, Dig. 50, 13, 1.— Absol.: opus etiam consummatis professoribus difficile, Quint. 1, 9, 3: circa scholas professorum, Suet. Tib. 11.—II.Transf., in gen., a professor, teacher: veritatis, Amm 30, 5, 9; 22, 4, 1: adulandi professores jam docti, id. 17, 11, 1: non obscurus professor atque auctor, Quint. 2, 15, 36; cf. Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 2; Spart. Hadr 15; Dig. 50, 13, 6.—Of a physician, Cels. 2, 6, 1; 6, 4; cf. Cod. 10, 52.