technician

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English technic

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nosder.

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Latin -iānusbor.

English -ian

English technician

From technic + -ian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĕk-nĭsh'ən, IPA^(key): /tɛkˈnɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

technician (plural technicians)

1. A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.
   • 2026 October 5, Patrick Jackson, “US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia, Rubio says”, in BBC News‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 October 2026, retrieved 5 October 2026:

     The US says it is closely monitoring the case of a Russian lab technician who died at a plague research centre in Siberia.

   Synonyms: tech (clipping), techie, technologist (often synonymous)

   Antonym: Luddite

   Coordinate terms: engineer, mechanic

   The lift technician found the reason the lift wasn't working.

Derived terms

• agrotechnician
• beautician
• biotechnician
• cytotechnician
• electrotechnician
• histotechnician
• polytechnician
• psychotechnician
• pyrotechnician
• zootechnician

• computer technician
• dental technician
• emergency medical technician
• lighting technician
• market technician
• nail technician
• sound technician
• veterinary technician

Related terms

• technical
• technically

Descendants

• → Amharic: ቴክኒሺያን (teknišiyan)

Translations

occupation

• Albanian: teknik (sq) m
• Amharic: ቴክኒሺያን m or f (teknišiyan)
• Arabic: تِقْنِيّ m (tiqniyy), فَنِّيّ m (fanniyy)
• Armenian: տեխնիկ (hy) (texnik)
• Azerbaijani: texnik
• Basque: teknikari (eu)
• Belarusian: тэ́хнік m (téxnik)
• Bengali: যন্ত্রবিৎ (bn) (jontrobit)
• Bulgarian: техни́к (bg) m (tehník), техни́чка f (tehníčka)
• Catalan: tècnic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 技術員 / 技术员 (zh) (jìshùyuán)

• Czech: technik (cs) m, technička f
• Danish: tekniker c
• Dutch: technicus (nl) m, (regional) technieker (nl) m
• Esperanto: teĥnikisto, teknikisto
• Estonian: tehnik
• Finnish: teknikko (fi)
• French: technicien (fr) m, technicienne (fr) f
• Georgian: ტექნიკოსი (ṭekniḳosi)
• German: Techniker (de) m, Technikerin (de) f
• Greek: τεχνικός (el) c (technikós)
• Hebrew: טֶכְנַאי (he) m (tekhnaí)
• Hindi: तकनीशियन m (taknīśiyan), यंत्रविद् m (yantravid)
• Hungarian: műszerész (hu), technikus (hu), laboráns (hu), (mechanic in general): szerelő (hu)
• Indonesian: teknisi (id)
• Irish: teicneoir m
• Italian: tecnico (it) m
• Japanese: 技術者 (ja) (ぎじゅつしゃ, gijutsu-sha), テクニシャン (tekunishan)
• Kazakh: техник (texniyk)
• Khmer: អ្នកបច្ចេកទេស (nĕək pacceekaʼteih)
• Korean: 기술자 (ko) (gisulja), 엔진이어 (enjinieo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: teknîker m

• Kyrgyz: техник (ky) (tehnik)
• Lao: ນາຍຊ່າງ (nāi sāng)
• Latvian: tehniķis m, tehniķe f
• Lithuanian: technikas m, technikė f
• Macedonian: техничар m (tehničar), техничарка f (tehničarka)
• Malay: juruteknik (ms)
• Maltese: teknixin m
• Māori: kaihangarau, ringapū
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: техникч (mn) (texnikč)

  Mongolian script: ᠲ᠋ᠧᠻᠨᠢᠭᠴᠢ (tēknigči)

• Norman: technicien m, technicienne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tekniker m

• Pashto: ټکنيشن m (ṭaknešán)
• Persian: تکنیسین (fa) (teknisyan)
• Polish: technik (pl) m, techniczka f
• Portuguese: técnico (pt) m
• Romanian: tehnician (ro) m, tehniciană (ro) f
• Russian: те́хник (ru) m (téxnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тѐхнича̄р m

  Latin: tèhničār (sh) m

• Slovak: technik m, technička f
• Slovene: tehnik (sl) m, tehnica f
• Spanish: técnico (es) m
• Swedish: tekniker (sv) c
• Tajik: техник (texnik)
• Thai: ช่างเทคนิค (châang-ték-nìk)
• Turkish: teknisyen (tr)
• Turkmen: tehnik
• Ukrainian: те́хнік m (téxnik)
• Urdu: ٹیکنیشن (ur) m (taknīśiyan)
• Uyghur: تېخنىك (tëxnik)
• Uzbek: texnik (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhà kỹ thuật, kĩ thuật viên (vi)
• Welsh: technegwr m, technegydd m
• Yiddish: טעכניקער m (tekhniker)

Further reading

• technician on Wikipedia.Wikipedia