appraisal

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Etymology

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English appraise

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālisbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

English -al

English appraisal

From appraise + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɹeɪzəl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪzəl

Noun

appraisal (countable and uncountable, plural appraisals)

1. The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
   • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 47:

     She hated that silent appraisal, watching someone compare her to a version that she might have been.

2. A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.

Derived terms

• appraisal cost
• appraisal theory
• e-appraisal
• miniappraisal
• misappraisal
• nonappraisal
• overappraisal
• quasi-appraisal
• re-appraisal
• reappraisal
• self-appraisal
• underappraisal

Translations

judgement — see also pricing,‎ evaluation

• Bulgarian: оце́нка (bg) f (océnka), преце́нка (bg) f (precénka)
• Catalan: avaluació (ca) f, valoració f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評價 / 评价 (zh) (píngjià)

• Dutch: schatting (nl) f, taxatie (nl) f, raming (nl) m
• Finnish: arviointi (fi), arviolaskelma
• French: estimation (fr) f, jugement (fr) m, évaluation (fr) f
• German: Einschätzung (de) f, Taxierung f
• Hindi: आकलन (hi) (āklan)
• Japanese: 評価 (ja) (ひょうか, hyōka)
• Latin: taxātiō f, aestimātiō f
• Māori: arotakenga
• Persian: ارزیابی (fa)
• Polish: wycena (pl) f (1), ocena (pl) f (2)
• Portuguese: avaliação (pt) f
• Romanian: evaluare (ro) f, apreciere (ro) f
• Russian: оце́нка (ru) f (océnka)
• Scottish Gaelic: measadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: prosudba (sh) f, evaluacija f, ocena (sh) f, ocjena (sh) f
• Spanish: justipreciación f, aforamiento (es) m
• Tamil: மதிப்பீடு (ta) (matippīṭu)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: تقدیر (takdir)