profess: [14] Profess comes from prōfessus, the past participle of Latin prōfitērī ‘declare publicly’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forth, in public’ and fatērī ‘acknowledge, confess’ (a relative of English fable, fame, and fate and source also of confess). A professor [14] is etymologically someone who ‘makes a public claim’ to knowledge in a particular field; and someone’s profession [13] is the area of activity in which they ‘profess’ a skill or competence. => confess, fable, fame, fate
profess (v.)
early 14c., "to take a vow" (in a religious order), a back-formation from profession or else from Old French profes, from Medieval Latin professus "avowed," literally "having declared publicly," past participle of Latin profiteri "declare openly, testify voluntarily, acknowledge, make public statement of," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + fateri (past participle fassus) "acknowledge, confess," akin to fari "to speak," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)). Meaning "declare openly" first recorded 1520s, "a direct borrowing of the sense from Latin" [Barnhart]. Related: Professed; professing.
例文
1. Why do organisations profess that they care？
なぜ機関は自分が関心を持っていると嘘をついているのか？
2.I profess that I was surprised at the news.
このニュースに驚いたことを認めます。
3.They have become what they profess to scorn.
彼らは自分たちが軽蔑していたような人になった。
4.I don 't profess expert knowledge of/to be an expert in this subject.
私はこの問題について玄人を自任していない[この問題の専門家だ].
5.I don 't profess to be an expert on that subject.