peregrine

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɹəɡɹin/, /ˈpɛɹəɡɹɪn/

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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 debility.
4. Extrinsic or from without; exotic.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     peregrine and preternatural heat

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:

     As soon as she had smiled her face altered again, and the petulant expression peregrine to her features took control.

5. With "tone" Referring to the tonus peregrinus or 'wandering tone' in ecclesiastical chant and mode theory.

peregrine (plural peregrines)

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

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

• peregrine hawk
• peregrinate
• peregrination

peregrine

1. inflection of peregrinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /pe.reˈɡri.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: pe‧re‧grì‧ne

peregrine

1. feminine plural of peregrina

peregrīne

1. vocative singular of peregrīnus

peregrine

1. inflection of peregrinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /peɾeˈɡɾine/ [pe.ɾeˈɣ̞ɾi.ne]
• Rhymes: -ine
• Syllabification: pe‧re‧gri‧ne

peregrine

1. inflection of peregrinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative