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tirocinium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tirocini-um
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Military.

Inflected Forms

tyrocinium (alternative)

Questions

What does tirocinium mean?
Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.
Where does tirocinium come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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