tyro

See also: Tyro

English

Alternative forms

• tiro

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tīro (“young soldier, recruit”).

Pronunciation

• 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 [...].

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:beginner

Related terms

• tyrociny
• tirocinium

Translations

a beginner, a novice

• Russian: новичо́к (ru) m (novičók), начина́ющий (ru) m (načinájuščij)
• Spanish: principiante (es) m or f, novato (es) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Turkish: çömez (tr), çaylak (tr)

Anagrams

• Tory, Troy, ryot, tory, troy