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peregrinatio

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [pɛ.rɛ.ɡriːˈnaː.ti.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [pe.re.ɡriˈnat.t͡si.o][1]

Forms

peregrīnātiō f (genitive peregrīnātiōnis); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin peregrīnor (“to travel or live abroad”) + -tiō.[2][3][1] The verb is from peregrīnus (“foreign”), from peregrē (“abroad”), which de Vaan explains as *pere-agro-, “what is beyond the land or village”, with ager (“field”); he traces that noun to Proto-Italic *agro- (“field”) and Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-ro- (“uncultivated field, pasture”).[4] Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”) and Old High German ackar (“field”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler dates it from Cicero,[5] who exclaims in the Philippics: “how noble that journey of yours is!”.[2]

Semantic evolution

It means travelling abroad or away from home, and staying or living abroad: Cicero writes to a friend that any stay abroad is obscure and mean for those whose industry can shine at Rome.[2][6] The TLL notes that it belongs to prose from Cicero on, is more frequent in Seneca and later Latin, and is absent from Caesar, Sallust and Livy.[3] In Church Latin it is travel and pilgrimage, and in medieval Latin a pilgrimage to the holy places or a penitential exile.[7][8] English borrowed peregrination in the early 15th century, first in the sense journey or pilgrimage.[9]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – Cicero of journeys and of living abroad.[2][5]
  • 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it often.[3][5]
  • early 15th century – Borrowed into English as peregrination.[9]

Meanings

Noun

  1. Travel abroad or away from home, a journey.[2][6][1]
  2. A stay or residence abroad, a sojourn.[2][6][1]
  3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) A pilgrimage.[7][8][1]
  4. (Medieval Latin) A penitential exile.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  5. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  7. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  8. ^ a b c Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
  9. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com