tirocinium
English
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editEtymology
editFrom 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.
Noun
edittirocinium
- Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.
Translations
editLatin
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editEtymology
editFrom tīrō (“recruit, beginner, novice”) + -cinor (“to be a...”, suffix forming verbs) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /tiː.roːˈki.ni.um/, [t̪iːroːˈkɪniʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ti.roˈt͡ʃi.ni.um/, [t̪iroˈt͡ʃiːnium]
Noun
edittīrōcinium n (genitive tīrōciniī or tīrōcinī); second declension
- apprenticeship, tyrociny
- first military service, first campaign, recruitment
- (by extension) military inexperience
- (metonymically) new recruits, raw forces (collectively)
- (figuratively) first attempt (at anything)
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tīrōcinium | tīrōcinia |
Genitive | tīrōciniī tīrōcinī1 |
tīrōciniōrum |
Dative | tīrōciniō | tīrōciniīs |
Accusative | tīrōcinium | tīrōcinia |
Ablative | tīrōciniō | tīrōciniīs |
Vocative | tīrōcinium | tīrōcinia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
edit- tīrōcinium monasticum (“novitiate, noviciate”) (Ecclesiastical)
Descendants
edit- → Catalan: tirocini (learned)
- → English: tirocinium (learned)
References
edit- “tirocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tirocinium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tirocinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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