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
- A lack of experience
Ancestry of “inexperience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | inexpérience | inexperience |
| 2 | French | expérience | experiment, trial, test; experience, the totality... |
| 3 | Latin | experientia | a trial, proof, experiment; experimental... |
| 4 | Latin | experiens | testing, trying, experiencing |
| 5 | Latin | experior | I attempt, I try; I test, I put to the test, I... |
| 6 | Latin | pariō | to bear, to give birth to |
| 7 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |