Dictionary formperegrinus, peregrini(masculine)
Translation
foreigner, stranger; pilgrim
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Grammar
Cases
| Case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativethe subject | peregrinus | peregrini |
| Vocativecalling someone: O ... | peregrine | peregrini |
| Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), per | peregrinum | peregrinos |
| Genitiveof | peregrini | peregrinorum |
| Dativeto, for | peregrino | peregrinis |
| Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sine | peregrino | peregrinis |
Examples
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Pilgrims come to the holy city.
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He took the strangers into his own house.
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He made a long journey with the pilgrims.
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The number of strangers was large.
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Nobody knew the stranger's name.
Peregrinus, peregrini, m., second declension, from the adverb peregre, "abroad", which is per plus ager: one who is out through the fields, beyond the boundary.
In Roman law the word is technical. A peregrinus was a free man who was not a Roman citizen, tried under a separate praetor and a separate body of law, the ius gentium, so it marks legal status rather than distance travelled. Christian Latin then turned the outsider into the traveller to a shrine, and that sense reached English as pilgrim through Old French pelerin, the r becoming l on the way, which is why the English word looks unrelated. The word also works as a plain adjective, "foreign".
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 2: peregrinus, arbor, quisquis and 7 more words.