Where does “expertise” come from?
Expertise comes from French expertise, derived from French expert with the suffix -ise, from Latin expertus meaning "tried or tested," from Latin experior meaning "to try or test," combined with Latin -ia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European per- meaning "to attempt or risk."
expertise (English): Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or...
Definitions
- Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or...
Ancestry of “expertise”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | expertise | appraisal; expertness |
| 2 | French | expert | expert |
| 3 | Latin | expertus | tested; having tested; proved; having proven;... |
| 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 |