professor

Meaning

1. (masculine) teacher (a person who teaches professionally)
2. (Brazil, masculine, slang) coach

Concepts

teacher

🧑‍🏫

professor

instructor

master

academician

tutor

educator

teachers

prof

professional

reader

scholar

schoolmarm

schoolmaster

schoolteacher

faculty member

schoolma’am

school teacher

schoolie

academic

authority

dominie

don

expert

lector

lecturer

Synonyms

mestre

professora

docente

mestra

leitor

professor universitário

instrutor

Magistério

Professora

magistério

professora

Professor

Translations

professeur

🧑‍🏫

profesor

Lehrer

leraar

🧑‍🏫

professore

🧑‍🏫

maestro

insegnante

öğretmen

🧑‍🏫

professor

enseignant

🧑‍🏫

Professor

معلم

onderwijzer

🧑‍🏫

δάσκαλος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɾo.feˈsoʁ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin: professor

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin pro-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *fatēōr
Latin fateor
Latin profiteor
Latin professus
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin professorlbor.
Old Galician-Portuguese professor
Portuguese professor
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese professor, a learned borrowing from Latin professor, from professus + -tor.

Sentences

Experiência é o melhor professor .

Experience is the best teacher.

Um ponto para cada professor que trabalha no centro .

One point for each teacher who works at the center.

O professor não está feliz com seus alunos .

The teacher is not happy with his students.

Livro fechado , professor quieto .

Closed book, quiet teacher.

O professor chamou a atenção dos alunos .

The teacher caught the students' attention.

Aprenda com um professor e torne-se um mestre .

Learn from a teacher and become a master.