"experience" in seven languages
Meaningexperience
Spanish
experiencia
/ekspeˈɾjenθja/
fem.learned
French
expérience
/ɛkspeʁjɑ̃s/
fem.learned
Also means 'experiment': faire une expérience.
Italian
esperienza
/espeˈrjɛntsa/
fem.learned
Portuguese
experiência
/espeɾiˈẽsjɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
experiență
/eksperiˈentsə/
fem.learned
Catalan
experiència
/əkspəɾiˈɛnsiə/
fem.learned
English
experience
/ɪkˈspɪɹiəns/
from Latin/French · Old French experience / Latin
English → ItalianexperienceesperienzaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
EXPERIENTIAM‘trial, proof (from EXPERĪRĪ 'to try out')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
EXPERĪRĪ 'to try out' gave both experience and experiment, and French expérience still means both. Italian simplifies x to s, as in esempio.
English relatives: experiment, expert
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In a sentence
- esTiene mucha experiencia.
- frElle a beaucoup d'expérience.
- itHa molta esperienza.
- ptEla tem muita experiência.
- roAre multă experiență.
- caTé molta experiència.
- enShe has a lot of experience.