Etymology

itinerant

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Today it means: Habitually travelling from place to place. Full definition →

First used 1560sLate Latin itinerantem
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The story

  1. Late Latin · borrowed fromitinerantem
  2. English todayitinerant

From Late Latin itinerantem, present active participle of itineror (“travel”), from itiner-. By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ant.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1560s Habitually travelling from place to place.

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