expert
/ˈekspət/EK-spurt
/ˈɛkspɚt/EK-spurt
Meaningtried
Common meaning: one with special skill
- experto try, test; a trial, dangerLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 693 · scan
- tpast-participle ending
Journey through time
- Latinexperior, expertus; perīculum‘to try, test’
- Frenchexpert
- Middle Englishexpertsource
- Englishexpert‘one with special skill’ · today
exper also in: experienceexperiment
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: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin experior ‘to try, test; a trial, danger’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry experior, p. 693 · dictionary scan
Roots
- experior, expertus; perīculum Latin “to try, test; a trial, danger”
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