apprentice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A young person learning a skilled trade by working with an expert.

   He started as an apprentice to a carpenter at sixteen.

2. 2
   verb

   To work as an apprentice in order to learn a trade.

   She apprenticed with a master chef for three years.

From Middle English apprentice, apprentesse, apprentyse, apprentis, from Old French aprentis, plural of aprentif, from Old French aprendre (verb), Late Latin apprendō, from Classical Latin apprehendō. Compare typologically Latin discipulus (akin to capiō); Russian схва́тывать на лету́ (sxvátyvatʹ na letú), and for another aspect быть на подхва́те (bytʹ na podxváte) (both akin to хвата́ть (xvatátʹ).

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