proffer

== English == === Etymology === The noun is derived from Middle English profre (“act of offering or presenting a gift; offer of something; challenge; sacrifice; act of petitioning or requesting; petition, request; proposal, suggestion; idea, thought; attempt, effort; appearance; (law) payment to the Exchequer by a sheriff or other officer of estimated revenue due to the monarch”) [and other forms], and then: partly from Late Latin profrum, proferum (“payment to the Exchequer of estimated revenue due to the monarch (also puruoffrus), offer to convict a criminal”), and from its likely etymon Anglo-Norman profre, proffre, porofre (“payment to the Exchequer of estimated revenue due to the monarch; offer, proposal”), and partly from the verb. The verb is derived from Late Middle English prouffer, prouffre, Middle English profren, profer, proffere (“to offer, propose; to deliver, hand over, present; to take up; to volunteer; to dedicate; to attempt, try; to risk; to challenge; to provide; to ask, invite; to proceed, start; to grant; to argue”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman profrer, proferer, profferer, proffrir, propherer, proufrir, and Old French proferir, proffrir, profrir (“to offer, propose; to present; to volunteer”), variants of Anglo-Norman puroffrir and Middle French poroffrir, paroffrir, Old French poroffrir, paroffrir, porofrir, from por-, pur- (prefix meaning ‘to go through’ or having an intensifying effect) + offrir, ofrir (“to offer”) (modern French offrir (“to offer; to give as a gift; to open oneself up to (someone)”)). Offrir is derived from Vulgar Latin *offerīre, from Latin offerre, present active infinitive of offerō (“to offer, present; to exhibit, show; to expose; to cause, inflict; to consecrate, dedicate; to sacrifice”) (from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to support; to endure; to bring forth; to put in motion; to move forward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”))). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒfə(ɹ)/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑfɚ/ Rhymes: -ɒfə(ɹ) Hyphenation: prof‧fer === Noun === proffer (plural proffers) An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender. Synonym: proposition (obsolete) An attempt, an essay. ==== Alternative forms ==== profre, proffre (obsolete) ==== Derived terms ==== proffer letter ==== Translations ==== === Verb === proffer (third-person singular simple present proffers, present participle proffering, simple past and past participle proffered) (transitive, reflexive) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of. (transitive, obsolete) To attempt or essay of one's own accord; to undertake or propose to undertake. ==== Alternative forms ==== profre, proffre (obsolete) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== prolate ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== profer === References === === Further reading === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “proffer”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “proffer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. “proffer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === proffre == Norwegian Bokmål == === Noun === proffer m indefinite plural of proff