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ensikertalainen, vasta-alkaja, aloittelija A beginner; a novice. (defdate)
2002, (w), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 171:

Alliance with the equally youthful Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, tyro mathematician of genius and darling of the Parisian salons, led to the two men commissioning articles for the new venture straight away ....

I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.