novice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who is new to and inexperienced in a field or activity

   Although still a novice at climbing, she followed every safety instruction carefully.

2. 2
   noun

   a new member of a religious order who has not yet taken final vows

   The novice spent a year learning the order's rules before taking her vows.

Simplified etymology

Novice, recorded in Middle English, comes from Latin novus, meaning “new.” Novus is also the source of innovate, novel, and renovate, while English new comes from the same root.

From Middle English novice, through Anglo-Norman and Middle French, from Latin novicius, "newly arrived or newly introduced," based on novus, "new." Late Latin used the noun for someone newly admitted to a monastery, from which the general beginner sense developed.

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