tyro

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Etymology

From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”).

In Medieval Latin the term was often spelt as tyro whence the English spelling is derived.

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tyro (plural tyros or tyroes)

  1. A beginner; a novice.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:beginner
    • 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC:
      I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.
    • 1843, [John Ruskin], “Preface to the second edition”, in Modern Painters , volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., , →OCLC, page xxxii:
      Thus […] he separates […] the details and the whole […] ; and because details alone […] are the sign of a tyro's work, he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details […] are the sign of the production of a consummate master.
    • 1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525,
      Master of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish...
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
      The text, though, was marvellously accurate for a tyro’s work; and I concluded that Akeley must have used a machine at some previous period—perhaps in college.
    • 1959 May, “New Reading on Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 271:
      Switzerland for Railfans, by B. J. Prigmore and W. J. Wyse (1s.) is a stencilled pamphlet produced by the Electric Railway Society with a number of useful tips for the tyro planning his first visit.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 171:
      Alliance with the equally youthful Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, tyro mathematician of genius and darling of the Parisian salons, led to the two men commissioning articles for the new venture straight away [...].

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