different between gyro vs tyro

English

Etymology 1

Originally a shortening of gyroscope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a??o?/
• Homophone: giro
• Rhymes: -a????
• Rhymes: -?????

Noun

gyro (plural gyros)

1. A gyroscope
2. A gyrocompass
3. An autogyro

Derived terms

• directional gyro

Translations

Etymology 2

From Greek ????? (gýros); from the turning of the meat on a spit. Doublet of gyre and gyrus.

Alternative forms

• gyros, giro, giros
• yero

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a??o?/, /?ji?.?o?/, /?j??o?/, /????o?/

Noun

gyro (plural gyros)

1. A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.

   I'll have a gyro, please.

Usage notes

The correct pronunciation of this word is disputed. The pronunciation /?d?a??o?/ is often proscribed. All of the listed pronunciations may be found in use. (The modern Greek pronunciation is /??i?os/.):

Translations

See also

• kebab
• shawarma, shoarma, shwarma
• souvlaki

References

Linguist List has a discussion of pronunciations (archived).

Anagrams

• Gy?r, gory, ogry, orgy

French

Etymology

From Greek ????? (gýros)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.?o/

Noun

gyro m (plural gyros)

1. gyro; Alternative spelling of gyros (Greek sandwich)

Alternative forms

• gyros
• yero

Latin

Etymology

From g?rus (“circle”), from Ancient Greek ????? (gûros)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??y?.ro?/, [??y??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d??i.ro/, [?d??i???]

Verb

g?r? (present infinitive g?r?re, perfect active g?r?v?, supine g?r?tum); first conjugation

1. I turn in a circle, wheel around, rotate.
2. I circle, revolve around.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cong?r?
• g?r?tus

Related terms

• g?rus

Descendants

References

• gyro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gyro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Alternative forms

• tiro

Etymology

From Latin t?ro (“young soldier, recruit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ta????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ta??o?/

Noun

tyro (plural tyros or tyroes)

1. A beginner; a novice. [from 17th c.]
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man:

     I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.

   • 1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525,

     Master of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish...

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 5:

     The text, though, was marvellously accurate for a tyro’s work; and I concluded that Akeley must have used a machine at some previous period—perhaps in college.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 171:

     Alliance with the equally youthful Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, tyro mathematician of genius and darling of the Parisian salons, led to the two men commissioning articles for the new venture straight away [...].

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:beginner

Related terms

• tyrociny
• tirocinium

Translations

Anagrams

• Tory, Troy, ryot, tory, troy