different between peregrine vs pilgrim

English

Etymology

From Middle English peregrin, borrowed from Old French peregrin, from Latin peregr?nus (“foreign”). Doublet of pilgrim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?????n/

Adjective

peregrine (comparative more peregrine, superlative most peregrine)

1. Wandering, travelling, migratory.

   The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.

2. Not native to a region or country; foreign; alien.
3. (astrology, of a planet) Lacking essential dignity or debility.
4. Extrinsic or from without; exotic.

Noun

peregrine (plural peregrines)

1. The peregrine falcon.
2. (dated) A foreigner; a person resident in a country other than their own.

Synonyms

• (foreigner): alien, outlander, strangeling; see also Thesaurus:foreigner

Related terms

• peregrinate
• peregrination

Latin

Noun

peregr?ne

1. vocative singular of peregr?nus

Portuguese

Verb

peregrine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of peregrinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of peregrinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of peregrinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of peregrinar

Spanish

Verb

peregrine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of peregrinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of peregrinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of peregrinar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English pilegrim, from Old French pelegrin, from Latin peregr?nus (“foreigner”). Doublet of peregrine.

The change of –r...r– to –l...r– is an effect of dissimilation in early Romance; compare Italian cognate pellegrino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l???m/
• Hyphenation: pil?grim

Noun

pilgrim (plural pilgrims)

1. One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.

   • strangers and pilgrims on the earth

2. (slang) A newcomer.
3. (historical) A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck.

Derived terms

• pilgrimage

Translations

Verb

pilgrim (third-person singular simple present pilgrims, present participle pilgriming, simple past and past participle pilgrimed)

1. (intransitive) To journey; to wander; to ramble.
   • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or, A catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge

     For that he hath no certain home, or diet, but pilgrims up and down every where, feeding upon all sorts of Plants

   • 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

     [T]o all galleries, churches, sistine chapels, ruins, coliseums, and artistic or dilettante shrines he zealously pilgrimed[.]

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse pílagrímr (“pilgrim”), from Medieval Latin pelegrinus, from Latin peregr?nus (“foreigner, traveler”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pil?r?m/, [?p?il?????m?], [?p?il?????m] or IPA^(key): /pi?l?r?m/, [?p?i?l?????m?], [?p?i?l?????m]

Noun

pilgrim c (singular definite pilgrimmen, plural indefinite pilgrimme)

1. pilgrim (traveller, especially to religious sites)

Inflection

Middle English

Noun

pilgrim (plural pilgrimes)

1. Alternative form of pilegrim

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse pílagrímr (“pilgrim”), from Medieval Latin pelegrinus, from Latin peregr?nus (“foreigner, traveler”).

Noun

pilgrim c

1. pilgrim

Declension

Derived terms

• pilgrimsfärd