Etymology

tirocinium

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Today it means: Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate. Full definition →

Latin tirocinium
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromtirocinium“first military campaign; raw recruit; inexperience; first attempt”
  2. English todaytirocinium

From Latin tirocinium (“first military campaign; raw recruit; inexperience; first attempt”), from tīro (“beginner, recruit, novice”) + -cinor (“forming verbs: to be a ...”) + -ium (“forming nouns: the state of ...”), used in the title of William Cowper's 1784 poem on schools Tirocinium, or A Review of Schools. Doublet of tyrociny.

Words from the same roots

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tyrociny

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