proficient

Etymology

From Latin proficiens, present participle of proficere (“to go forward, advance, make progress, succeed, be profitable or useful”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + facere (“to make, do”); see fact.

adj

  1. Good at something; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
    He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.

noun

  1. An expert.
    The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers." 1880, Francis John Bellew, Memoirs of a Griffin; Or, A Cadet's First Year in India, page 202
    Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients? 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 10, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

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