tirocinium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.

Word forms

tirocinium tyrocinium

Etymology

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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