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Tyro
Ty′ro
,Noun.
pl.
Tyros
(#)
. [L.
tiro
a newlylevied soldier, a beginner.] A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.
[Written also
tiro
.] The management of
Is difficult.
tyros
of eighteenIs difficult.
Cowper.
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Tyro
Tyro
See also: tyro
Latin
Noun
Tyrō
References
- Tyro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Tyro”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
tyro
tyro
See also: Tyro
English
Alternative forms
Noun
tyro (plural tyros or tyroes)
- A beginner; a novice. [from 17th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 171:
- Alliance with the equally youthful Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, tyro mathematician of genius and darling of the Parisian salons, led to the two men commissioning articles for the new venture straight away [...].
- Mary Shelley,The Last Man
- I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 171:
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:beginner
Related terms
Translations
a beginner, a novice
Anagrams
References
- "tyro" in the Online Etymology Dictionary