different between rover vs itinerant

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????v?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??v?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English roven (“to wander, to shoot an arrow randomly”) +? -er.

Noun

rover (plural rovers)

1. (archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
   • 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, Chapter 22.

     "By my hilt! no. There was little Robby Withstaff, and Andrew Salblaster, and Wat Alspaye, who broke the neck of the German. Mon Dieu! what men they were! Take them how you would, at long butts or short, hoyles, rounds, or rovers, better bowmen never twirled a shaft over their thumb-nails.

2. One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
   • 1846, Herman Melville, Typee, Chapter 1.

     But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some adventurous rover would break in upon their peaceful repose. and astonished at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted to claim the merit of a new discovery.
3. A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.

   She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.

   • 1954, Pat Ballard, Mr. Sandman, (song)

     Give him the word, that I'm not a rover, and tell him that his lonely days are over.

4. A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
   • September 19, 2005, Dave Lane, Mars Exploration Rover "OPPORTUNITY"

     NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is currently traveling southward over a pavement of outcrop dubbed the "Erebus Highway." "Erebus Crater," the rover's next target, lies less than 100 meters (328 feet) south of its current position

5. A remotely-operated vehicle; ROV
6. (Australian Rules football) A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
7. (American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
8. (croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
9. (baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
10. (obsolete) A sort of arrow.
    • 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

      All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch roven (“to rob”). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian røver (“robber, thief, highwayman, brigand”), Swedish rövare, German Räuber. Compare the native English word reaver, which is ultimately the same composition.

Noun

rover (plural rovers)

1. A pirate.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)

     the rovers and theeves

2. A pirate ship.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinnson Crusoe, Chapter 2.

     The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the African shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rôvere. Equivalent to roven +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro?.v?r/
• Hyphenation: ro?ver
• Rhymes: -o?v?r

Noun

rover m (plural rovers, diminutive rovertje n)

1. robber

Derived terms

• roversbende
• rovershol
• roversnest
• straatrover
• struikrover
• zeerover (“pirate”)

Related terms

• roof

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rower

Anagrams

• vrore

Old French

Alternative forms

• ruver

Etymology

First known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. From Latin rog?re, present active infinitive of rog?. The forms in -uis- was very likely due to analogy with forms of pooir.

Verb

rover

1. to order (give an order)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem ruev distinct from the unstressed stem rov, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• rovaison

English

Etymology

From Late Latin itiner?ntem, from itiner?ns, present active participle of itineror (“I travel”). See also itinerate, itinerary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??t?n??nt/

Adjective

itinerant (comparative more itinerant, superlative most itinerant)

1. Habitually travelling from place to place. [from 1560s]

Translations

Noun

itinerant (plural itinerants)

1. One who travels from place to place.
2. (Ireland) A member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.

Translations

Further reading

• itinerant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nitratine

Romanian

Etymology

From French itinérant.

Adjective

itinerant m or n (feminine singular itinerant?, masculine plural itineran?i, feminine and neuter plural itinerante)

1. itinerant

Declension