different between professional vs sedulous

English

Etymology

profession +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???f???n?l/

Noun

professional (plural professionals)

1. A person who belongs to a profession
2. A person who earns their living from a specified activity
3. A reputation known by name
4. An expert.
   • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 97:

     I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; […] invite the professional, urgently, to dine with us this evening.

Derived terms

• non-professional, nonprofessional
• pseudo-professional, pseudoprofessional
• semi-professional, semiprofessional
• super professional, super-professional, superprofessional

Translations

Adjective

professional (comparative more professional, superlative most professional)

1. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
2. That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
3. (by extension) Expert.

Derived terms

• non-professional, nonprofessional
• professionalism
• pseudo-professional, pseudoprofessional
• semi-professional, semiprofessional
• unprofessional

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

professió +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /p?o.f?.si.o?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /p?u.f?.si.u?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /p?o.fe.si.o?nal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

professional (masculine and feminine plural professionals)

1. professional

Derived terms

• professionalisme
• professionalment

Noun

professional m or f (plural professionals)

1. professional

Further reading

• “professional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “professional” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “professional” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “professional” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From English professional.

Pronunciation

Noun

professional m (plural professionals)

1. a professional practicioner of a trade, métier...
2. an expert in a (professional) field

Related terms

• professionalism n

English

Etymology

From Latin s?dulus (“diligent, industrious, sedulous; solicitous; unremitting; zealous”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality, generally in abundance). S?dulus is probably derived from s?dul? (“diligently; carefully; purposely; zealously”) (possibly from s?- (prefix meaning ‘without’) + dol? (singular of dolus (“deceit, deception; evil intent, malice”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to count, reckon”))) + -us (suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?d???l?s/, /?s?dj?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?d???l?s/
• Hyphenation: se?dul?ous

Adjective

sedulous (comparative more sedulous, superlative most sedulous)

1. Of a person: diligent in application or pursuit; constant and persevering in business or in endeavours to effect a goal; steadily industrious.

   Synonyms: assiduous; see also Thesaurus:industrious
2. Of an activity: carried out with diligence.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVII [Uniform ed., p. 169]:

     He had much to learn about boys, and he learnt not by direct observation—for which he believed he was unfitted—but by sedulous imitation of the more experienced masters.

Derived terms

• sedulously
• sedulousness

Related terms

• sedulity

Translations

References

Further reading

• diligence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sedulous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sedulous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sedulous at OneLook Dictionary Search