"tyro" meaning in All languages combined

See tyro on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈtaɪɹəʊ/ [UK], /ˈtaɪɹoʊ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tyro.wav [Southern-England] Forms: tyros [plural], tyroes [plural]
Etymology: From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”). In Medieval Latin the term was often spelt as tyro whence the English spelling is derived. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|tīrō||young soldier, recruit}} Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|tyroes}} tyro (plural tyros or tyroes)
  1. A beginner; a novice. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: beginner, tiro Related terms: tyrociny, tirocinium Translations (a beginner, a novice): новак (novak) [masculine] (Bulgarian), начинаещ (načinaešt) [masculine] (Bulgarian), Anfänger [masculine] (German), Neuling [masculine] (German), טִירוֹן (tirón) [masculine] (Hebrew), principiante (Portuguese), calouro (Portuguese), новичо́к (novičók) [masculine] (Russian), начина́ющий (načinájuščij) [masculine] (Russian), principiante [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), novato [masculine] (Spanish), çömez (Turkish), çaylak (Turkish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for tyro meaning in All languages combined (4.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "tīrō",
        "4": "",
        "5": "young soldier, recruit"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”).\nIn Medieval Latin the term was often spelt as tyro whence the English spelling is derived.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tyros",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tyroes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "tyroes"
      },
      "expansion": "tyro (plural tyros or tyroes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525,\nMaster of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish..."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 May, “New Reading on Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 271",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 171",
          "text": "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 [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A beginner; a novice."
      ],
      "id": "en-tyro-en-noun-7tDM2HcC",
      "links": [
        [
          "beginner",
          "beginner"
        ],
        [
          "novice",
          "novice"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "tyrociny"
        },
        {
          "word": "tirocinium"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "beginner"
        },
        {
          "word": "tiro"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "novak",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "новак"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "načinaešt",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "начинаещ"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Anfänger"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Neuling"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "tirón",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "טִירוֹן"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "word": "principiante"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "word": "calouro"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "novičók",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "новичо́к"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "načinájuščij",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "начина́ющий"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "principiante"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "novato"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "word": "çömez"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
          "word": "çaylak"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtaɪɹəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtaɪɹoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tyro.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tyro.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tyro.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tyro.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tyro.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tyro"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "tīrō",
        "4": "",
        "5": "young soldier, recruit"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”).\nIn Medieval Latin the term was often spelt as tyro whence the English spelling is derived.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tyros",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tyroes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "tyroes"
      },
      "expansion": "tyro (plural tyros or tyroes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "tyrociny"
    },
    {
      "word": "tirocinium"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525,\nMaster of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish..."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 May, “New Reading on Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 271",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 171",
          "text": "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 [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A beginner; a novice."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beginner",
          "beginner"
        ],
        [
          "novice",
          "novice"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "beginner"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtaɪɹəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtaɪɹoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tyro.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tyro.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tyro.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tyro.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tyro.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tiro"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "novak",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "новак"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "načinaešt",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "начинаещ"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Anfänger"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Neuling"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "tirón",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "טִירוֹן"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "word": "principiante"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "word": "calouro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "novičók",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "новичо́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "načinájuščij",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "начина́ющий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "principiante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "novato"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "word": "çömez"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a beginner, a novice",
      "word": "çaylak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tyro"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.