apprentice Copy link Outline 1. discĭpŭlus2. tīro3. ălumnus • apprentice: 1. discĭpŭlus: Pl. Aul. 3, 1, 4 (the Eng. word signifies prop. a learner, from apprendre). 2. tīro: Cic.: a young ap., tīrunculus. Sen. 3. ălumnus: as ap. to a shoemaker, sutrinae tabernae al., Tac. A. 15, 34. More definitely, and in the legal sense: *puer artificio alicui in certum tempus addictus ut ejusdem peritus fiat. (The mediaeval authors use apprenticius, from Fr. apprendre: e. g. "apprenticii quoque multi, relictis magistris suis, illuc accurrebant," Hen. de Knighton, ap. Du Cange, s. v.)
APPRENTICE Copy link • APPRENTICE 1. discipulus artificia or magistri (v. Cic., De Or., 3, 9, 35): puer discens (both for pupil generally; the latter, if he is a lad under seventeen): tiro (one still a beginner in his art): tabernae alumnus (pupil, lad, etc., of a handicraftsman or shopkeeper; e.g., tabernae sutrinae alumnus, a shoemaker’s apprentice). ☞ None of these words fully express our notion of an apprentice: perhaps ab aliquo in disciplinam receptus, or ab aliquo in disciplinam sollemni ritu receptus. To receive a lad as one’s apprentice, puerum sollemni ritu in disciplinam recipere. 2. v. puerum tradere opifici in disciplinam (of the father, etc.): dare puerum in tabernam opificis.