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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [pɛ.rɛˈɡriː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [pe.reˈɡriː.nus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''peregrīnus''' (feminine peregrīna, neuter peregrīnum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[peregrē]] “abroad”, from [[per|t=through, beyond]] and [[ager]] “field, land”, with the suffix [[-īnus]]: one from beyond the territory.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citations are from Plautus, of foreign persons and things.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ As an adjective it meant foreign, alien, as Plautus' ''peregrīnus homō'' and his foreign ship, of plants exotic, and of things of foreign origin or outlandish character.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant situated or occurring abroad, as Cicero's death abroad, concerned with foreigners, and in law alien, not Roman; the ''praetor peregrīnus'' judged cases involving foreigners.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Varro defines ''ager peregrīnus''.^(OLD 2012) As a noun it meant a foreigner, and a free man under Roman rule without citizenship.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein says [[exterus]] is one dwelling in a foreign land, ''peregrīnus'' one sojourning in a land not his own.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ In Christian and Medieval Latin it meant a stranger, wanderer, pilgrim, one banished as a penance, and of a pilgrim.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''pellegrino'' and French ''pèlerin''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|pilgrim]] came about 1200 through Old French, and [[en|peregrine]] from Medieval Latin ''falcō peregrīnus'' “pilgrim falcon”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of foreigners and foreign things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of death abroad.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1200 – English ''pilgrim'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # [[m|en|Foreign]], alien; exotic.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Situated or occurring abroad.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(law)'' Concerned with aliens.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|foreigner]]; a free non-citizen.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|pilgrim]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[comperegrinus]]
+ * [[peregrīnor]]
+ * [[peregrīna]]
+ * [[peregrīnitās]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[peregrē]]
+ * [[ager]]
+ * [[en|pilgrim]]
+ * [[en|peregrine]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}