experior

Meaning

  1. (conjugation-4, deponent) to attempt, to try; to test, to put to the test, to find out, to prove; therefore, to make trial of a person or thing
  2. (conjugation-4, deponent) to experience, to go through, to observe, to suffer, to endure, to sustain, to witness
  3. (conjugation-4, deponent) to do, fare

Pronounced as (IPA)
[ɛkˈspɛ.ri.ɔr]
Etymology

From ex- + *perior (“try, dare, risk”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through”) (though De Vaan instead derives the root of the word from pariō (“to give birth to, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“to provide, produce”)).

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