Profit

== English == === Etymology === Variant of Proffitt. === Proper noun === Profit (plural Profits) A surname. ==== Statistics ==== According to the 2010 United States Census, Profit is the 17182nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1648 individuals. Profit is most common among Black/African American (66.38%) and White (29.13%) individuals. === Further reading === Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Profit”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. == German == === Etymology === 16th-century borrowing from German Low German profit, borrowed in turn around 1400 from Lower Rhine Middle Dutch profijt, from Old French profit, porfit (“advantage, profit, benefit”), from Latin prōfectus (“progress, growth, knowledge”), from prōficiō (“to advance”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pʁoˈfiːt/, /pʁoˈfɪt/ === Noun === Profit m (strong, genitive Profites or Profits, plural Profite, diminutive Profitchen n) profit ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Hungarian: profit → Russian: профит (profit) → Serbo-Croatian: pròfīt / про̀фӣт → Slovene: profit === Further reading === “Profit” in Duden online “Profit”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)