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- German · derived fromZauberlehrling
- French · calque ofapprenti-sorcier
- English todaysorcerer's apprentice
Calque of French apprenti-sorcier, itself a calque of German Zauberlehrling.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sorcerer's apprentice
Today it means: Person who experiments carelessly, without paying attention to the possible consequences of their experiments and without the ability to contain them should they spiral out of control. Full definition →
French apprenti-sorcier ← German Zauberlehrling