Where does “experiență” come from?
experiență (Romanian) comes from French expérience, from Latin experientia, from Latin experiens, from Latin experior, from Latin pariō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
experiență (Romanian): experience
Definitions
- experience
Ancestry of “experiență”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | expérience | experiment, trial, test; experience, the totality... |
| 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 |