profecto

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Latin

Etymology

Univerbation of prō factō, "indeed".

Adverb

profectō (not comparable)

actually, indeed, really, truly, surely, assuredly
Synonyms: certō, certē
- c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.26:
  'Absque te' inquit 'uno, forsitan lingua profecto Graeca longe anteisset, sed tu, mi Fronto, quod in uersu Homerico est, id facis: καί νύ κεν ἢ παρέλασσας ἢ ἀμφήριστον ἔθηκας.
  He said, "without you alone, maybe the Greek language would have indeed won, but my dear Fronto, you do what appears in that verse by Homer: He would've made of it either a (victorious) parade or a source of doubt (for the supposed enemy victory) (Iliad 23.527).

Participle

prŏfectō

dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prŏfectus

References

“profecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“profecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
profecto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.