expertus

Perfect active participle of experior (“test, attempt, experience”), but with passive meaning.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛkˈspɛr.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ekˈspɛr.tus]

expertus (feminine experta, neuter expertum); first/second-declension adjective

1. experienced; having experienced [with genitive ‘in something’]

   Synonyms: gnarus, peritus, callidus, instructus, doctus, cōnsultus, magister

   Antonyms: rudis, inexpertus, ignārus, imperītus, hospes

   • Experto crede

     Trust in one experienced

First/second-declension adjective.

• inexpertus

expertus (feminine experta, neuter expertum); first/second-declension participle

1. tested; having tested
2. proved; having proven

First/second-declension adjective.

• “expertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “expertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “expertus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • he has had many painful experiences: multa acerba expertus est
    
  • (ambiguous) we know from experience: experti scimus, didicimus