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tiro, tyro|ˈtaɪərəʊ|
Pl. -oes, -os |-əʊz|. Forms: α. 7 tyron, tyrone, pl. 7–9 tyrones |-ˈəʊniːz|. β. 7– 9 tyro, 8–9 tiro, pl. 7–8 tyro's, 7– tyros, tyroes, 8– tiroes.
[a. L. tīro, pl. tīrōnēs (in med.L. often spelt tyro, tyrones: so in Du Cange), a young soldier, a recruit, a beginner; It. tirone, Sp. tiron. Commonly spelt tyro, after med.L., down to the date of Cowper's Tirocinium, 1784, and still so spelt by the majority of writers; in the 17th c. tyrone was even written for It. tirone, and tyrones as plural after L. is found down to 1824. But a plural of English form tyroes (cf. heroes, negroes) is found in 1672, and tyros in 1690; Cowper has tiroes.]
A beginner or learner in anything; one who is learning or who has mastered the rudiments only of any branch of knowledge; a novice.
1611Coryat Crudities 63 Of those punies, those tyrones that are brought up under those threescore, there are no less then a thousand and five hundred. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 109 Exercising and training like the tyrones or young souldiers in Camp Mart. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tyrone.., a fresh water-souldier; a young beginner in any art or science, a novice. 1670E. Maynwaring Physician's Repos. 92 They do but qualify you as a Tyro. 1672Manley Cowell's Interpr. Pref., The Students of the Law be no Tyroes in other Learning; or, at least, ought not to be. 1697Evelyn Numism. vii. 252 For the Ease and Benefit of Tyros. 1699Garth Dispens. iii. 31 There stands a Structure on a rising Hill, Where Tyro's take their Freedom out to kill. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. III. 24/1 The Tyroes in the art of Painting. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 220 The management of tiroes of eighteen Is difficult. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 240/1 Dr. Travis..was..on entering into this province of theological polemics, a Tiro, compared with his antagonists. 1810Edin. Rev. XV. 399 The tyro will not complain that it [the word] is obscure. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xiii, A subject upon whilk all the tyrones have been trying their whittles. 1828Whately in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 282/1 It will..be advisable for a tiro in composition to look over what he has written. 1851Ruskin Mod. Paint. (ed. 2) I. Pref. 36 The merest tyro in art knows that [etc.]. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech ii. (1873) 49 The youngest tiro is hardly surprised to learn that lieu and coucher both spring from one root. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 13 It is difficult to acquit Plato..of being a tyro in dialectics, when he overlooks such a distinction. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. 14 Easily recognisable by the veriest tiro in the school of Shakespeare.
attrib.a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) I. 162 Those tyron souldiers and novices in the arte militarie. 1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 142 A tyro-chemist in search of the philosopher's stone. 1903H. G. Hutchinson in Watson Eng. Sport 272 Conveying some information to the tiro golfer. 1905Daily Chron. 14 July 5/7 Rifle Clubs' Tyro Competition, open to teams of five tyro members. |
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