expertise

See also: Expertise and expertisé

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.

Proto-Italic *parjō

Latin pariō

Latin experior

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Latin expertusder.

French expert

French -ise

French expertisebor.

English expertise

Borrowed from French expertise. Compare gourmandise.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz/, /ˌɛkspəˈtiːz/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɛkspɚˈtis/, /ˌɛkspɚˈtiz/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌekspɜːˈtiːz/, /ˌekspəˈtiːz/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌekspøːˈtiːz/, /ˌekspəˈtiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

expertise (countable and uncountable, plural expertises)

1. Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.

   Synonyms: expertness, mastery, masterfulness, mastership

   • 8 September 2014, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:

     He spoke of Scotland's hydroelectric projects in Africa, local expertise shared with the world's poor.

   • 2002, International Documentary Association (contributor), International Documentary, The Newsletter of the International Documentary Association‎^[1], volume 21, page 28:

     Two HIV-positive teens, Jennifer Jako and Rebecca Guberman, had decided to make a film out of their own and other teens' experience with HIV, although they had no expertise when they started.

2. Advice, or opinion, of an expert.

Derived terms

• cyberexpertise
• inexpertise
• sexpertise

Translations

great skill or knowledge — see also competency

• Catalan: expertesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專門知識 / 专门知识 (zhuānmén zhīshì)

• Czech: odbornost f, expertiza f
• Esperanto: kompetenteco, sperto (eo), sperteco
• Finnish: asiantuntemus (fi), taito (fi), taitavuus (fi)
• French: compétence (fr) f, expertise (fr) f
• Galician: arte (gl) f, destreza (gl) f, habelencia f, habilidade (gl) f, man (gl) f, mestría f, pericia f, soltura
• German: Expertise (de) f, Fachkenntnis (de) f, Sachverstand (de) m
• Hungarian: szakértelem (hu), szaktudás (hu)
• Indonesian: kepakaran (id)
• Italian: competenza (it) f
• Japanese: 専門的知識 (せんもんてきちしき, senmonteki chishiki)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاشنا (aşna)

• Macedonian: стручност f (stručnost)
• Māori: tohungatanga
• Middle English: sleighte
• Portuguese: perícia (pt) f, especialidade (pt) f, expertise (pt) f
• Romanian: expertiză (ro) f, competență (ro) f
• Russian: компете́нтность (ru) f (kompeténtnostʹ), (профессиона́льные) зна́ния n pl ((professionálʹnyje) znánija), (большо́й) о́пыт m ((bolʹšój) ópyt), мастерство́ (ru) n (masterstvó), зна́ние де́ла n (znánije déla), (хоро́шая) подгото́вка (ru) f (podgotóvka)
• Sicilian: spirtizza f, majistrìa f
• Spanish: pericia (es) f, expertise f, experticia (es) f, peritaje (es) m, peritación (es) f
• Swedish: expertis (sv) c
• Tagalog: kadalubhasaan
• Turkish: ustalık (tr)

advice or opinion of an expert

• Abkhaz: аҭҵаара (atcʼaara)
• French: expertise (fr) f
• German: Expertise (de) f, Fachkenntnis (de) f, Sachverstand (de) m
• Hungarian: szakvélemény (hu)
• Italian: perizia (it) f
• Macedonian: стручно мислење n (stručno mislenje), експерти́за f (ekspertíza)
• Polish: ekspertyza (pl) f
• Romanian: expertiză (ro) f
• Russian: эксперти́за (ru) f (ekspertíza), экспе́ртная оце́нка f (ekspértnaja océnka), мне́ние экспе́рта n (mnénije ekspérta)
• Sicilian: pirizzia f, pariri spertu m

See also

• competence
• knowledge
• proficiency
• skill

Verb

expertise (third-person singular simple present expertises, present participle expertising, simple past and past participle expertised)

1. (transitive, rare) To supply with expert knowledge or advice.
   • 1985, Energy Research Abstracts, page 2720:

     Since 1979, we have developed a method for expertising the design of the processes and improving them.

   • 2010, Donald Gray, Laura Colucci-Gray, Elena Camino, Science, Society and Sustainability, page 20:

     Including a plurality of different expertise in the decision-making processes corresponds to expertising the democratic procedures.

   • 2011, Jens O. Parsson, Dying of Money, page 249:

     If experts shall lose their expertise, wherewith shall they be expertised? The fact that only the rare economists can be entrusted with economics is not reason to discard economics, but to go and find the rare men.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French expertise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛk.spɛrˈtiː.zə/, /ˌɛk.spərˈtiː.zə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ex‧per‧ti‧se
• Rhymes: -iːzə

Noun

expertise f (plural expertises or expertisen, no diminutive)

1. expertise

   Synonyms: deskundigheid, kundigheid

2. expert investigation

Derived terms

• contra-expertise

Related terms

• expert

French

Etymology

From expert +‎ -ise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spɛʁ.tiz/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

expertise f (countable and uncountable, plural expertises)

1. (countable) appraisal, valuation
2. (countable) assessment

   une expertise psychiatrique ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (uncountable) expertness, expertise, expert knowledge (great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby)

Descendants

• → Danish: ekspertise
• → English: expertise
• → German: Expertise
• → Italian: expertise
• → Norwegian Bokmål: ekspertise
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: ekspertise
• → Portuguese: expertise
• → Swedish: ekspertis

Further reading

• “expertise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French expertise.

Noun

expertise f (invariable)

1. (art) authentication

Further reading

• “expertise”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.

Proto-Italic *parjō

Latin pariō

Latin experior

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Latin expertusder.

French expert

French -ise

French expertiseubor.

Portuguese expertise

Unadapted borrowing from French expertise.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [is.pehˈt͡ʃi.zi], /es.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [es.pehˈt͡ʃi.zi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [is.pehˈt͡ʃi.zi], /es.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [es.pehˈt͡ʃi.zi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /is.peɾˈt͡ʃi.zi/, /es.peɾˈt͡ʃi.zi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃ.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [iʃ.peχˈt͡ʃi.zi], /eʃ.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [eʃ.peχˈt͡ʃi.zi]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /is.peɻˈt͡ʃi.zi/, /es.peɻˈt͡ʃi.zi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃ.pɨɾˈti.zɨ/

• Hyphenation: ex‧per‧ti‧se

Noun

expertise f (usually uncountable, plural expertises)

1. expertise

Further reading

• “expertise”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.

Proto-Italic *parjō

Latin pariō

Latin experior

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Latin expertusder.

French expert

French -ise

French expertisebor.

Spanish expertise

Borrowed from French expertise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡspeɾˈtis/ [eɣ̞s.peɾˈt̪is]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: ex‧per‧ti‧se

Noun

expertise f (plural expertises)

1. expertise

   Synonym: pericia