Where does “experience” come from?
Experience comes from Middle English experience, from Latin experientia meaning trial or experiment, derived from Latin experior meaning to try, formed from the Latin prefix ex- combined with a root from Proto-Indo-European per- meaning to attempt or risk.
experience (English): The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced...
Definitions
- The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced...
Ancestry of “experience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | experience | — |
| 2 | Latin | experientia | a trial, proof, experiment; experimental... |
| 3 | Latin | experiens | testing, trying, experiencing |
| 4 | Latin | experior | I attempt, I try; I test, I put to the test, I... |
| 5 | Latin | pariō | to bear, to give birth to |
| 6 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
Words derived from “experience”
- experienced
- experiencing
- inexperienced
- experiencer
- unexperienced
- reexperience
- experienceable
- nonexperienced
- nonexperience
- experienceless
- unexperienceable
- postexperience
- nonexperiencing
- underexperienced
- interexperience
- unexperience
- sexperience
- experiencewise
- re-experience
- eksperyans
- coexperience
- eggsperience
- experience points
- pseudoexperience