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Proficient

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means competent and skilled in doing or using something
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Stage 1 of 2
proficere
Latin · ancient
"to make progress"
to make forward progress, from pro- (forward) and facere (to make)
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Stage 2 of 2
proficient
English · 1560s
"competent and skilled at something"
settled as the English word for being competent and skilled at something
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