tirocinium

Meaning

Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.

Synonyms

period spent as a pupil

period spent as a student

apprenticeship

Translations

onervarenheid

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.