Etymology

trainee

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Today it means: Someone who is still in the process of being formally trained in a workplace. Full definition →

English train ← Middle English trayne ← Old French train
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰregʰ-der.?
  2. Latintrahere
  3. Vulgar Latin*tragīnāre
  4. Old Frenchtraïner
  5. Old Frenchtrain
  6. Middle Englishtrayne
  7. Englishtrain
  8. English todaytrainee

From train + -ee.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.