fa-, fam-, fan-, fat-, -fess +
(Latin: talk, speak, say, spoken about; acknowledge)
profess
1. To declare openly, announce, affirm; to avow, acknowledge, confess oneself to be (or do) something.
2. To affirm or declare one’s faith in or allegiance to; to acknowledge or formally recognize as an object of faith or belief (a religion, principle, rule of action; God, Christ, a saint, etc.).
professedly
1. With pretense or intention to deceive: "He is only professedly poor which is not the truth."
2. By an open declaration.
profession
1. An occupation that requires extensive education or specialized training and/or experience.
2. The members of a particular occupation.
3. A declaration of belief in a religion or faith.
professional
1. Engaged in an occupation as a paid job rather than as a hobby.
2. Showing a high degree of skill or competence.
professionalism
1. The skill, competence, or character expected of a member of a highly trained profession.
2. The use of professionals instead of amateurs.
professionalize
To make an occupation professional, especially by paying the people who engage in it or improving the conditions or standards of their work.
professionally
In a professional manner, or being engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.
professor
1. A teacher holding the highest academic rank in a college or university or simply a teacher in such institutions.
2. Someone who professes a religion or other belief; such as, the professors of true religion.
unprofessional
1. Below or contrary to the standards expected in a particular profession.
2. Not characteristic of, or befitting, a profession or one engaged in a profession.
unprofessionally
Descriptive of someone not showing the standard of behavior or skills that are expected of a person in a skilled job.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
English Words: Origins and Histories;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phon-;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "divination, diviner; seer, soothsayer, prophecy, prophesy, prophet":
augur-;
auspic-;
Fates in action;
futur-;
-mancy;
omen;
-phemia;
sorc-, sorcery;
vati-.
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