Professio, ônis, f. g. Verb. Ci. An open confessing or acknowled ging. Iugerum subscriptio ac professio. Cic.Conficere professionem.Cic. Professio. Quint. An open reading or professing.Bene dicendi professio.Cic. Professio est etiam, quam vulgo vocationem vocant, vt quum dicitur, Ego sum alterius vocationis, hoc est, instituti vitæ. Bud. ex Vlp. & Paul. I am of another professiõ.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prŏfessĭo, ōnis, f. [profiteor], a public acknowledgment, declaration, expression, profession, promise (mostly post-Aug.). I. In gen.: professio bonae voluntatis, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 2: Canidius timidius decessit, quam professioni ejus congruebat, Vell. 2, 87, 3: memores professionis, of our promise (of brevity), id. 2, 89, 6: aperta, Plin. 27, 3, 2, 9: suae opinionis,
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, Gell. 7, 3, 24: summa stultitiae, id. 7, 3, 24: flagitii, Tac. A. 2, 85: pietatis, id. Agr. 3.—B.Transf., a sign, token (post-class.): vitiorum, Pall. 3, 9.—II. In partic., a public declaration or specification of one's person, name, property, business, etc. (class.): IS. APVD. QVEM. EA. PROFESSIO FIET, etc., Tab. Her. in Haubold, Mon. Leg. p. 101 sq.; Liv. 35, 7: tu vero confice professionem, si potes. Etsi haec pecunia ex eo genere est, ut professione non egeat, Cic. Fam. 16, 23, 1: post professionem de fideicommisso factam, Dig. 49, 14, 2; Tert. Apol. 42; Vulg. Act. 5, 37.—B.Transf.1.A public register of persons or property thus given in (class.): in Leontino jugerum subscriptio ac professio non est plus triginta millium, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 47, 113.—2.A business or profession which one publicly avows (class.): professio bene dicendi, Cic. de Or. 1, 6, 21: grammaticae, Suet. Gram. 8: sapientiae, Plin. 7, 30, 31, 112: magicae artis, Curt. 7, 4, 8: professionem honestarum artium malis corruperant moribus, id. 8, 5, 7: ista salutaris, the art of healing, medicine, Cels. praef.: ultimae professionis homines, i. e. vilissimi artificii, Lampr. Elag. 20; Dig 2, 13, 9.