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单词 profectitious
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profectitiousadj.

Brit. /ˌprɒfɛkˈtɪʃəs/, U.S. /ˌprɑfɛkˈtɪʃəs/
Forms: 1600s–1700s 1900s– profectitious, 1800s profecticious.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin profectīcius , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin profectīcius that proceeds from a father or male ancestor (2nd or early 3rd cent. a.d.; < profect- , past participial stem of proficīscī (see profection n.) + -īcius : see -itious suffix1) + -ous suffix. Compare French †profectice (16th cent. in Middle French), Portuguese profectício (1446). Compare earlier adventitious adj.
Roman History.
Of property or money: that proceeds or is derived from a parent or ancestor (applied esp. to a dowry given to a woman by her paterfamilias). Contrasted with adventitious.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Profectitious, see Adventitious.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Adventitious, in the Civil Law, is applied to such Goods as fall to a Man, either by mere Fortune, or by the Liberality of a Stranger, or by Collateral Succession... The Word is used in opposition to Profectitious; by which are signified such Goods as descend in a direct Line.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xliv. 372 The threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional, was ascertained.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Ulpian Rules vi, in tr. Gaius Institutes 373 A dowry is either profecticious, that is, given by the woman's father, or adventicious, given by some other person.
1926 J. Declareuil Rome the Law-Giver iii. 111 By the end of the Republic a distinction was already drawn between the profectitious dowry, which was repayable not only to the wife but, in case of her predecease, to the ascendant who had furnished it..and the adventitious dowry, in respect of which the action for restitution could only be brought by the surviving wife, if she was sui juris.
2004 B. W. Frier & T. A. J. McGinn Casebook Rom. Family Law 76 A ‘profectitious’ dowry (dos profecticia) comes from a woman's paternal ascendant (usually her father and pater familias, but the same rules would apply even if she were emancipated).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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