different between tyro vs thro

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

English

Etymology 1

• Abbreviation of through.

Preposition

thro

1. (archaic) through
   • 1851, Montagu, The Psalms, in a New Version, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches: Psalm CVI

     He the Red Sea rebuk'd also,
     That it updrying fled:
     As thro a desert dry to go,
     Them thro the deeps He led.

Etymology 2

From Middle English thro, thra, from Old Norse þrár (“stubborn, obstinate, persevering”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawaz (“obstinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to grind, drill, turn”).

Alternative forms

• throe

Adjective

thro (comparative more thro, superlative most thro)

1. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; vehement.
2. (obsolete) Bold.

Anagrams

• Roth, Thor, hotr, orth-, thor

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro?/

Noun

thro

1. Aspirate mutation of tro.

Verb

thro

1. Aspirate mutation of tro.

Mutation