novice

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• Canadian, Received-Pronunciation, Standard, dialectal: /ˈnɒvɪs/ of the US
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• General-American, dialectal: /ˈnɑvɪs/ of Canada
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• Australian: /ˈnɔvɪs/
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• Australian: /ˈnɒvɪs/
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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”).

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: послушник (poslušnik) — new member of a religious order
• Bulgarian: послушница (poslušnica) — new member of a religious order
• Catalan: novici — new member of a religious order
• Catalan: novícia — new member of a religious order
• Czech: novic — new member of a religious order
• Czech: novicka — new member of a religious order
• Danish: novice — new member of a religious order
• Esperanto: novico — new member of a religious order
• Finnish: noviisi — new member of a religious order
• Galician: novizo — new member of a religious order
• Galician: noviza — new member of a religious order
• Georgian: ახალბედა (axalbeda) — new member of a religious order
• German: Novize — new member of a religious order
• German: Novizin — new member of a religious order
• Greek: δόκιμος (dókimos) — new member of a religious order
• Greek: δόκιμη (dókimi) — new member of a religious order
• Hungarian: novícius — new member of a religious order
• Hungarian: papnövendék — new member of a religious order
• Hungarian: -jelölt — new member of a religious order
• Lao: ຈົວ (chūa) — new member of a religious order
• Macedonian: ѓак (ǵak) — new member of a religious order
• Macedonian: по́слушник (póslušnik) — new member of a religious order
• Macedonian: иску́шеник (iskúšenik) — new member of a religious order
• Norwegian Bokmål: novise — new member of a religious order
• Norwegian Bokmål: novise — new member of a religious order
• Norwegian Nynorsk: novise — new member of a religious order
• Norwegian Nynorsk: novise — new member of a religious order
• Polish: nowicjusz — new member of a religious order
• Polish: nowicjuszka — new member of a religious order
• Portuguese: noviço — new member of a religious order
• Portuguese: noviça — new member of a religious order
• Russian: послу́шник (poslúšnik) — new member of a religious order
• Russian: послу́шница (poslúšnica) — new member of a religious order
• Spanish: novicio — new member of a religious order
• Spanish: novicia — new member of a religious order
• Swedish: novis — new member of a religious order
• Turkish: çömez — new member of a religious order
• Ukrainian: неофі́т (neofít) — new member of a religious order