Peregrinators

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A group of individuals who travel or wander through various regions, often in search of adventure or knowledge
2. those who explore new territories and cultures with a sense of curiosity and exploration
3. individuals who engage in journeys across different lands, typically characterized by a sense of nomadic movement or desire to experience the unfamiliar

Etymology: "Peregrinators" is the plural of "peregrinator", which English borrowed directly from Latin "peregrinator", meaning a wanderer or traveller. The Latin noun comes from "peregrinari", "to travel abroad" or "to be a stranger", built on "peregrinus", a word for a foreigner or someone living away from home. That adjective-noun, in turn, is formed from "per" ("through" or "across") and "ager" ("field" or "land"), so the underlying image is of someone who has crossed the fields of other territories. The Latin root gave English a family of related words, among them "peregrine", originally applied to the falcon that travels widely, and "pilgrim", which came through Old French and Latin from the same stem. The Latin "peregrinus" also produced the English word "pilgrim" in its older sense of a stranger or wanderer, long before the word narrowed to religious travellers.