pelerin

See also: pèlerin and pèlerîn

English

Alternative forms

  • pilleryn

Etymology

From Middle English pelerin, from Old French pelerin, from Latin peregrīnus (foreigner, traveler). Doublet of pilgrim.

Noun

pelerin (plural pelerins)

  1. (obsolete) A pilgrim.
    • 1614, William Mure, Dido and Æneas:
      Can e're thy bountyes be by vs repayed?
      All-vertuouse princes! Africk's gloriows starre!
      We straying Pelerins will ne'r assay't,
      Thy great deserts exceed owr pow'r so farre.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • pelrin

Etymology

From Old French pelerin, from Latin peregrīnus (foreigner, traveler).

Noun

pelerin (plural pelerins)

  1. pilgrim
    Synonym: pilegrim

Descendants

  • English: pelerin
  • Scots: pelerin, pellerin, pilleryn

References

Middle French

Noun

pelerin m (plural pelerins)

  1. pilgrim (person who makes a pilgrimage)

Descendants

Old French

Alternative forms

Noun

pelerin oblique singular, m (oblique plural pelerins, nominative singular pelerins, nominative plural pelerin)

  1. pilgrim (person who makes a pilgrimage)
  2. foreigner

Adjective

pelerin m (oblique and nominative feminine singular pelerine)

  1. foreign

Descendants

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pelerin, supplement)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pèlerin.

Noun

pelerin m (plural pelerini)

  1. pilgrim

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French pèlerine.

Noun

pelerin (definite accusative pelerini, plural pelerinler)

  1. cape (garment)
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