Borrowed from Latin profert (“he makes known”), third-person singular present indicative of profero (“to make public, to make known, to cite”).

profert (plural proferts)

1. (law) The production or display of recorded evidence in court.
   • 1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law‎^[1]:

     Baron Parke, after laying down that in general a party is not required to make profert of an instrument to the possession of which he is not entitled,[…]

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prōfert

1. third-person singular present active indicative of prōferō