novitiate

== English == === Etymology === First attested in 1517; either borrowed from Middle French noviciat, novitiat or from Medieval Latin noviciātus, novitiātus (“a novitiate”), from Latin novicius, novitius + -ātus (see -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank or office)), from novus (“new”). Sense 1 is not attested in cognates. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nəˈvɪʃi.ət/ Hyphenation: no‧vi‧ti‧ate === Noun === novitiate (plural novitiates) A novice. The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training. The place where a novice lives and studies. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “novitiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “novitiate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “novitiate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === evitation