peripatetic
/ˌpɛɹ.ɪ.pəˈtɛt.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tending to walk about.
adj
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Peripatetic.
noun
One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Peripatetic (“Aristotelian”).
adj
Of or pertaining to the philosophy or methods of Aristotle, or to his followers.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: itinerant, nomadic"
- "After peripatetic upbringing that took her from America to Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium and England, [Mary-Kay] Wilmers read French and Russian at Oxford."
- "The true peripatetic school."
- "Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant."
- "He who would think clearly must think like a peripatetic even if he is unwilling to walk like one."
- "And though it be True indeed, that some Aristotelians have occasionally written against the Chymical Doctrine he Oppugnes, yet since they have done it according to their Principles, And since our Carneades must as well oppose their Hypothesis as that of the Spagyrist, he was fain to fight his Adverfaries with their own Weapons, Those of the Peripatetick being Improper, if not hurtfull for a Person of his Tenents ; besides that those Aristotelians, (at Least, those he met with,) that have written against the Chymists, seem to have had so little Experimental Knowledge in Chymical Matters, that by their frequent Mistakes and unskilfull way of Oppugning, they have too often expos'd Themselves to the Derision of their Adversaries, for writing so Confidently against what they appear so little to understand."
Etymology
From French péripatétique, from Latin peripatēticus, from Ancient Greek περιπατητικός (peripatētikós, “given to walking around”), from περιπατέω (peripatéō, “to walk around”), from περί (perí, “around”) (English peri-)+ πατέω (patéō, “to walk”).
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: péripatétique, peripatēticus, περιπατητικός, περίπατος
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpɛɹ.ɪ.pəˈtɛt.ɪk/
- British English: /ˌpɛɹ.ɪ.pəˈtɛt.ɪk/
Inflected Forms
more peripatetic (comparative)
most peripatetic (superlative)
peripatetick (alternative, obsolete)
peripatetics (plural)