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Where does “inexperience” come from?

Inexperience comes from French inexpérience, from Latin inexperientia, meaning lack of experience or trial.

inexperience (English): A lack of experience

Definitions

  1. A lack of experience

Ancestry of “inexperience”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchinexpérienceinexperience
2Frenchexpérienceexperiment, trial, test; experience, the totality...
3Latinexperientiaa trial, proof, experiment; experimental...
4Latinexperienstesting, trying, experiencing
5LatinexperiorI attempt, I try; I test, I put to the test, I...
6Latinpariō—
7Latin-iō—
8Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
9Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
10Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
11Chichewaiyehe, she
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