Prentice

Origin

An old (Middle English) aphetic form of apprentice; that is, a form which lost the unstressed initial vowel a and reduced the initial double pp to a single p.

Full definition of prentice

Noun

1. (obsolete) An apprentice.
• 1682, John Lacy, Sir Hercules Buffoon, or The Poetical Squire, Act II, scene iv,Faith, bind him prentice to a lord; by the same rule he'll be a lord when he's out of his time.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To apprentice.

Synonyms

• (noun, verb) apprentice, 'prentice