tyro

See also: Tyro

English

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin tyro, tīro (“young soldier, recruit”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtaɪɹəʊ/

Noun

tyro (plural tyros or tyroes)

  1. A beginner; a novice. [from 17th c.]
    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man:
      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.
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 5:
      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.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 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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References
  • "tyro" in the Online Etymology Dictionary

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