peregrino

/peɾeˈɡɾino/ · B2 · adj

pilgrim

🎒⛪ peregrino = Latin per + ager: one who goes through fields, a wanderer from abroad

From Latin peregrinus, built from per (through) + ager (land, field): someone passing through lands not their own. That gives foreign, wandering, and pilgrim. The sense of strange or rare grew from things seen as coming from far away.

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