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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɛk.spɛ.riˈɛn.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ek.spe.riˈɛn.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''experientia''' ''f'' (genitive experientiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[experiēns]], the present participle of [[experior]] “to try, test”, with the suffix [[-ia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Varro, of trying possibilities, as his ''experientiā temptāre'' “to test by trial”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the testing of possibilities, trial, experiment, effort, as Varro and Cicero's ''patrimōniī amplificandī experientia'' “efforts to increase one's estate”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant the experiencing of events, and in Virgil skill gained by practice, experience.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant an experiment, test, trial, proof, experience.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for an experiment, testing.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''esperienza'' and French ''expérience'', and Old French ''esperience'' gave [[en|experience]] in the late 14th century, “observation as the source of knowledge”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of testing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of effort.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of skill.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''experience'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Trial, [[m|en|experiment]]; effort.^(OLD 2012)
+ # The experiencing of events.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Skill from practice, [[m|en|experience]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[inexperientia]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[experior]]
+ * [[experīmentum]]
+ * [[perītus]]
+ * [[en|experience]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}