novice
意味
- 初心者,新米
- 見習い修道士(女)
例文
I am still a novice, but I look forward to working with you all.
まだまだ未熟者ですが、皆さんよろしくお願いします。
When it comes to love, women are experts and men eternal novices.
愛することにかけては、女性こそ専門家で、男性は永遠に素人である。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
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”).