Other forms: electricians
An electrician is the professional who installs and repairs the wiring in a building. Call an electrician, a qualified electrician, the electrician came.
In Britain most domestic electrical work is notifiable, which means it must be done or certified by a registered person and signed off — that certificate is what a buyer's solicitor asks for. The trade is apprenticed and regulated because the failure mode is fire. Note sparks, the affectionate British nickname for the trade; and that the -ian ending marks a practitioner, as in musician and physician.
1nounelectricianThe professional who installs and repairs wiring.
“We called an electrician because the lights kept flickering in the kitchen.”
electrician is a tradesperson.
New Latin
ēlectricus
English
electric
English, today
electrician
From electric + -ian. electric Borrowed from New Latin ēlectricus. c in a publication by Thomas Browne. From New Latin ēlectricus (“electrical; of amber”), from ēlectr(um) + icus; from Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (“amber”); related to ἠλέκτωρ (“shining sun”), of unknown origin (see which for more). The Latin term was apparently used first with the sense electrical in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert in his work De Magnete.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA