Thursday, January 25, 2007

Words: pilgrim, peregrine [AHED]

NOUN: 1. A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place. 2. One who embarks on a quest for something conceived of as sacred. 3. A traveler. 4. Pilgrim One of the English Separatists who founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old French peligrin, from Late Latin pelegrinus, alteration of Latin peregrinus, foreigner. See peregrine.

ADJECTIVE: 1. Foreign; alien. 2. Roving or wandering; migratory.
NOUN: A peregrine falcon.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin peregrinus, wandering, pilgrim, from Latin, foreigner, from pereger, being abroad : per-, through; see per– + ager, land.

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