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Translation

experiment

Word origin

From Latin experimentum, a trial or test, built on experiri ('to try out'). The same verb gave English experience and expert, so an experiment and an experience are the same idea seen from two ends.

Origin
Latin
Root
experimentum
English cognates
experiment, experience, expert

Examples

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The student did his first experiment.

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Every experiment must give the same result.

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We are trying a new experiment at school.

Watch the opening syllables. is one indivisible international root, not the prefix - ('former') stuck on anything: an is a trial, not a lapsed something. The verb is eksperimenti, and is the wider word for research that an is only one method of.

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This word is part of lesson 31.