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English
Etymology
From Middle English pelerin, from Old French pelerin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner, traveler”). Doublet of pilgrim.
Noun
pelerin (plural pelerins)
- (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
Etymology
From Old French pelerin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner, traveler”).
Noun
pelerin (plural pelerins)
- pilgrim
- Synonym: pilegrim
Descendants
References
Middle French
Noun
pelerin m (plural pelerins)
- pilgrim (person who makes a pilgrimage)
Descendants
Old French
Noun
pelerin oblique singular, m (oblique plural pelerins, nominative singular pelerins, nominative plural pelerin)
- pilgrim (person who makes a pilgrimage)
- foreigner
Adjective
pelerin m (oblique and nominative feminine singular pelerine)
- 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)
- pilgrim
Declension
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French pèlerine.
Noun
pelerin (definite accusative pelerini, plural pelerinler)
- cape (garment)