Meanings
Origin
- Latintirocinium“first military campaign; raw recruit; inexperience; first attempt”
- Englishtirocinium
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.
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Polish praktyki, staż
- praktykischooling, apprenticeship
- stażschooling, apprenticeship
Portuguese tirocínio
- tirocínioschooling, apprenticeship
Russian обуче́ние, учени́чество
- обуче́ние (obučénije)schooling, apprenticeship
- учени́чество (učeníčestvo)schooling, apprenticeship
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