different between tyro vs typo

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?p??/
• Rhymes: -a?p??

Etymology 1

Clipping of typographical error.

Noun

typo (plural typos or typoes)

1. A typographical error.

Coordinate terms

• clicko, scanno, speako, spello, thinko, writo
• lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ

Translations

Verb

typo (third-person singular simple present typos, present participle typoing, simple past and past participle typoed or typo'd)

1. To make a typographical error.

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of typographer.

Noun

typo (plural typos)

1. (colloquial, dated) A compositor; a typographer.

Translations

Anagrams

• -topy, pyot

French

Etymology

From typographe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.po/

Noun

typo m (plural typos, feminine typote)

1. a typo (compositor)

Further reading

• “typo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

typo (plural typos)

1. type

Latin

Noun

typ?

1. dative singular of typus
2. ablative singular of typus

Portuguese

Noun

typo m (plural typos)

1. Obsolete spelling of tipo (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).