Word to the Wise: Tyro

A “tyro” (TY-roh) – from the Latin for “a young soldier” – is a novice, someone just beginning to learn.

Example (as used by in Paul West in Sporting With Amaryllis): “He was a sensitive, fine soul alert to the pleasures of being green, a tyro, an amateur, unwilling to close his mind before it had been tempted.”

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