tirocinium

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tirocinium

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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.

noun tyrocinium

Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.

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noun schooling, apprenticeship

Português	tirocínio
Русский	обуче́ние obučénije, учени́чество učeníčestvo

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@misc{tirocinium_2026,
  title = {tirocinium},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tirocinium},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}