tyro

See also: Tyro

English

Alternative forms

• tiro

Etymology

From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”). In Medieval Latin the term was often spelt as tyro whence the English spelling is derived.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪɹəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪɹoʊ/

Noun

tyro (plural tyros or tyroes)

1. A beginner; a novice. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:beginner

   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1843, [John Ruskin], “Preface to the second edition”, in Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page xxxii:

     Thus […] he separates […] the details and the whole […] ; and because details alone […] are the sign of a tyro's work, he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details […] are the sign of the production of a consummate master.

   • 1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525,

     Master of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish...

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     The text, though, was marvellously accurate for a tyro’s work; and I concluded that Akeley must have used a machine at some previous period—perhaps in college.

   • 1959 May, “New Reading on Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 271:

     Switzerland for Railfans, by B. J. Prigmore and W. J. Wyse (1s.) is a stencilled pamphlet produced by the Electric Railway Society with a number of useful tips for the tyro planning his first visit.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 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 [...].

Related terms

• tyrociny
• tirocinium

Translations

a beginner, a novice

• Bulgarian: новак (bg) m (novak), начинаещ (bg) m (načinaešt)
• Finnish: keltanokka (fi), mopo (fi)
• German: Anfänger (de) m, Neuling (de) m
• Hebrew: טִירוֹן (he) m (tirón)
• Portuguese: principiante (pt), calouro (pt)
• Russian: новичо́к (ru) m (novičók), начина́ющий (ru) m (načinájuščij)
• Spanish: principiante (es) m or f, novato (es) m
• Turkish: çömez (tr), çaylak (tr)

Further reading

• “tyro”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Tory, Troy, ryot, tory, troy

Baltic Romani

Pronoun

tyro

1. (Litovska) masculine genitive of tu

Declension

Litovska/Lithuanian Romani personal pronouns

		singular				plural			reflexive
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
				m	f
Nominative		mē	tu	jou	joj	amē	tumē	jonē	-
Accusative/ Independent Oblique		man	tut	lēs	la	amēn	tumēn	lēn	pes
Dative		mange	tuke	lēske	lake	amēnge	tumēnge	lēnge	pēske
Ablative1		mandyr	tutyr	lēstyr	latyr	amēndyr	tumēndyr	lēndyr	pēstyr
Genitive	m	miro	tyro	lēskiro	lakiro	amaro	tumaro	lēngiro	pēskiro
	f	miri	tyri	lēskiri	lakiri	amari	tumari	lēngiri	pēskiri
	pl	mirē	tyrē	lēskirē	lakirē	amarē	tumarē	lēngirē	pēskirē
Locative		mandē	tutē	lēstē	latē	amēndē	tumēndē	lēndē	pēstē
Instrumental		mansa	tusa	lēsa	lasa	amēnca	tumēnca	lēnsa	pēsa
Enclitic Reflexive		man	pe			amēn	pe		-

¹ The ablative is in decline in Lithuanian Romani.