Italian Honorifics - Work

Work

  • Dottore / Dottoressa – dott. (Doctor; in Italy it is used for any person holding a university degree. This usage often confuses foreigners.)
  • Maestro / Maestra (teacher or expert artisan or musician)
    • Mastro (archaic for artisans)
  • Professore – prof. / Professoressa – prof.ssa (Professor, usually used for university teachers, and high school teachers)
    • Full professors in the university are most formally addressed as Chiarissimo Professor (Chiar.mo Prof.), derived from Latin clarus which meant famed. University headmasters (Rettore) are formally addressed as Magnifico Rettore (Magnificent Headmaster).

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Famous quotes containing the word work:

    “Many women who used to be full-time mothers are discovering that outside work gives them friends, challenges, variety, money, independence; it makes them feel better about themselves, and therefore lets them be better parents.”
    —Wendy Coppedge Sanford. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, introduction (1978)

    “In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man’s field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.”
    —Eugenie Clark (b. 1922)

    “Evil gains work their punishment.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)