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

• “pelerin, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle French

Noun

pelerin m (plural pelerins)

1. pilgrim (person who makes a pilgrimage)

Related terms

• pelerinage

Descendants

• French: pèlerin
  • → Romanian: pelerin

Old French

Alternative forms

• peligrin, pellegrin
• peregrin

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

Related terms

• pelerinage

Descendants

• Middle French: pelerin
  • French: pèlerin
    • → Romanian: pelerin
• Norman: pèlerîn
• → Middle English: pilegrim, pilgrim, pilgram, pilgrem, pilgrum, pilgerim, pilegrin, pillegrim (via peligrin, pellegrin)
  • English: pilgrim
  • Scots: pilgrim, pelegrin, pilgrin, pilgren, pylgryne
• → Middle English: pelerin, pelrin (via pelerin)
  • English: pelerin
  • Scots: pelerin, pellerin, pilleryn

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pelerin, supplement)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pèlerin.

Noun

pelerin m (plural pelerini)

1. pilgrim

Declension

Declension of pelerin

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pelerin	pelerinul	(niște) pelerini	pelerinii
genitive/dative	(unui) pelerin	pelerinului	(unor) pelerini	pelerinilor
vocative	pelerinule		pelerinilor

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French pèlerine.

Noun

pelerin (definite accusative pelerini, plural pelerinler)

1. cape (garment)