English

experience

/ɪkˈspɪə.ɹi.əns/
The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

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    Origin

    From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); see expert and peril. Displaced native Old English āfandung (“experience”) and āfandian (“to experience”).

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    • rootProto-Indo-European*per- “produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”
    • inheritedMiddle Englishexperience
      • derivedLatinexperientia “a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”

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