tyro

Etymology

From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”).

noun

1. A beginner; a novice.
   {{RQ:Ruskin Modern Painters|volume=I|edition=second|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29907/29907-h/29907-h.htm|page=xxxii|chapter=Preface to the second edition|passage=Thus […] he separates […] the details and the whole […] ; and because details alone […] are the sign of a tyro's work, he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details […] are the sign of the production of a consummate master.}}
   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...
   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. 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness
   Switzerland for Railfans, by B. J. Prigmore and W. J. Wyse (1s.) is a stencilled pamphlet produced by the Electric Railway Society with a number of useful tips for the tyro planning his first visit. 1959 May, “New Reading on Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 271
   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 …. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 171