tirocinium

• tyrocinium

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.

tirocinium

1. Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.

• tyrocinium

From tiro (“recruit, beginner, novice”) +‎ -cinor (“forming verbs: to be a ...”) + -ium (“forming nouns: the state of ...”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tiː.roːˈki.ni.um/, [t̪iːroːˈkɪniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ti.roˈt͡ʃi.ni.um/, [t̪iroˈt͡ʃiːnium]

tīrōcinium n (genitive tīrōciniī or tīrōcinī); second declension

1. apprenticeship, tyrociny
2. first military service, first campaign, recruitment
3. (by extension) military inexperience
4. (metonymically) new recruits, raw forces (collectively)
5. (figuratively) first attempt (at anything)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• tīrōcinium monasticum (“novitiate, noviciate”) (Ecclesiastical)

• → Catalan: tirocini (learned)
• → English: tirocinium (learned)

• “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.