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empiric

Meaningexperienced or guided by experience

Common meaning: someone who relies on observation or experiment

Journey through time

  1. Greekempeirikos‘experienced or guided by experience’source
  2. Latinempiricussource
  3. Frenchempirique‘guided by experience’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsguided by experience → someone who relies on observation or experimentempiric‘someone who relies on observation or experiment’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Greek empeirikos ‘experienced or guided by experience’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry EMPIRIC, p. 189 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • empeirikos Greek “experienced or guided by experience”

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