novitiate

From Middle French novitiat, from Medieval Latin novitiatus (“a novitiate”), from Latin novicius, novitius (“a novice”), from novus (“new”).

• IPA^(key): /nəˈvɪʃi.ət/
• Hyphenation: no‧vi‧ti‧ate

novitiate (plural novitiates)

1. the period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training
2. the place where a novice lives and studies
3. a novice

• novel
• novelization
• novelize
• novella
• novelty
• novice

• novitiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• novitiate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• novitiate at OneLook Dictionary Search

• evitation