tyro

The veriest tyro in natural history would see that at the first glance of the massive skeleton.

The youngest tyro, watching from the wings, observes great incidents and becomes their hasty historian.

The moment was critical; the veriest tyro felt the storm-spirit brooding over the hall.

The hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.

In Rome he first became acquainted with rules and technicalities, in which the merest tyro was before him.