profit · noun, verb1
- Latin · derived fromprōfectus“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”
- Old French · derived fromprofit
- Middle English · inherited fromprofit
- English todayprofit
From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect.
Profit · proper noun2
Variant of Proffitt.
Words from the same roots
Latinprōfectus all →
profect
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.