The adjective expert means experienced or skilled. It is heavily grounded in trying something for yourself, in hands-on learning, in personally putting something to the test. It comes from the Latin verb experiri, to try, to undergo thorough evaluation. This implies that the greatest experts have been trained in a heuristic way rather than merely being passive receptacles.
From time to time, I like to review exotic terminology for fields of expertise. Here are today’s offerings, with the field of expertise first, followed by the title of the expert*.
- almonds: amygdalogist
- breeding domesticated animals/plants: thremmatologist
- cork: phellologist
- dolls: planganologist
- elections: psephologist
- finger rings: dactyliologist
- gestures: pasimologist
- hotels: xenodocheionologist
- keys: cagologist
- lighthouses: pharologist
- minerals: oryctologist
- nonsense: morologist
- peace: irenologist
- quicksand: syrtologist
- relics: lipsanologist
- senility: nostologist
- thunder: brontologist
- ulcers: helcologist
- values: axiologist
- walnuts: juglandologist
*Taken from my Word Parts Dictionary, 2nd Edition, pp. 249 – 260.
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