词汇 | tyro |
词源 | tyro. A green recruit was called a tiro by the Romans, to dis- tinguish him from an experienced ordinary soldier, called a miles. In Medieval Latin tiro was often spelled tyro, which be- came our term for a novice or greenhorn in any field. |
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