Novice - Wiktionary

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English novice, novys, from Anglo-Norman novice, Middle French novice, itself borrowed from Latin novīcius, later novitius (“new, newly arrived”) (in Late Latin as a noun, masculine novicius, feminine novicia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”)), from novus (“new”).

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation, Standard Canadian, dialects of the US) IPA(key): /ˈnɒvɪs/

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• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA(key): /ˈnɑvɪs/

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• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈnɔvɪs/, /ˈnɒvɪs/

Noun

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novice (plural novices)

1. A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject. [from 14th c.] I'm only a novice at coding, and my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers would avoid.
2. (religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation. [from 14th c.]
   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), page 1137: Nor had it been difficult to find a Coptic priest who, together with his youthful novice, chanted the seemingly interminable Egyptian service of the dead […]

Adjective

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novice (comparative more novice, superlative most novice)

1. Of a beginner; unfamiliar or unexperienced in a particular subject.

Synonyms

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• (person new to an activity): amateur, greenhorn, learner, neophyte, newbie, newling
• See also Thesaurus:beginner

Derived terms

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• novicehood
• novicelike
• noviceship
• novicey

Related terms

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• novel
• novelisation
• novelise
• novelization
• novelize
• novella
• novelty
• novitiate

Translations

[edit] beginner — see beginner new member of a religious order

Bulgarian: послушник m (poslušnik), послушница f (poslušnica) Catalan: novici (ca) m, novícia (ca) m Czech: novic (cs) m, novicka (cs) f Danish: novice c Esperanto: novico Finnish: noviisi (fi) Galician: novizo m, noviza f Georgian: ახალბედა (axalbeda) German: Novize (de) m, Novizin (de) f Greek: δόκιμος (el) m (dókimos), δόκιμη f (dókimi) Hungarian: novícius (hu), papnövendék (hu), -jelölt (hu) Lao: ຈົວ (chūa) Macedonian: ѓак m (ǵak), по́слушник m (póslušnik), иску́шеник m (iskúšenik) Norwegian: Bokmål: novise m (male), novise m or f (female) Nynorsk: novise m (male), novise f (female) Polish: nowicjusz (pl) m, nowicjuszka (pl) f Portuguese: noviço (pt) m, noviça (pt) f Russian: послу́шник (ru) m (poslúšnik), послу́шница (ru) f (poslúšnica) Spanish: novicio (es) m, novicia (es) f Swedish: novis (sv) c Turkish: çömez (tr) Ukrainian: неофі́т m (neofít)

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Hausa: (please verify) mutumin da ya ke bako kan wasu aiyuka

Further reading

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• “novice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “novice”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “novice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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• nocive

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French novice, from Old French novice, borrowed from Late Latin novīcius, novīcia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”), from Latin novīcius, novītius (“new, newly arrived”), from novus (“new”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /nɔ.vis/

Noun

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novice m or f by sense (plural novices)

1. beginner, novice

Adjective

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novice (plural novices)

1. inexperienced

Further reading

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• “novice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French novice, borrowed from Late Latin novīcius, novīcia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”), from Latin novīcius, novītius (“new, newly arrived”), from novus (“new”).

Noun

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novice m or f (plural novices)

1. (Jersey) novice

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French novice.

Noun

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novice m (plural novici)

1. novice

Declension

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singular		plural
indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	novice	noviceul	novici	novicii
genitive-dative	novice	noviceului	novici	novicilor
vocative	noviceule		novicilor