itinerary

English

Etymology

From Late Latin itinerarius (“pertaining to a journey”), neuter itinerārium (“an account of a journey, a road-book”), from iter (“a way, journey”); see itinerate, itinerant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /aɪˈtɪnə(ɹə)ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /aɪˈtɪnəɹɛɹi/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

itinerary (plural itineraries)

1. A written schedule of activities for a vacation or road trip.
2. A route or proposed route of a journey.
   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:

     The length of the Wengernalp Railway from Lauterbrunnen over the Kleine Scheidegg to Grindelwald or vice versa, Riggenbach rack-and-pinion operated throughout, should be a "must" in the itinerary of every Oberland tourist; [...].

3. An account or record of a journey.
4. A guidebook for travellers.

Translations

route or proposed route of a journey

• Afrikaans: reisplan
• Arabic: مَسار الرِّحْلَة m (masār ar-riḥla)
• Armenian: երթուղի (hy) (ertʻuġi)
• Azerbaijani: marşrut
• Belarusian: маршру́т m (maršrút)
• Bulgarian: маршру́т (bg) m (maršrút)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 路線／路线 (lou⁶ sin³)

  Mandarin: 路線／路线 (zh) (lùxiàn), 旅程 (zh) (lǚchéng), 行程 (zh) (xíngchéng)

• Czech: itinerář m, trasa (cs) f
• Danish: rute c, rejseplan c, rejserute c
• Dutch: weg (nl) m, reisroute (nl) f
• Estonian: marsruut
• Finnish: reitti (fi), matkareitti, matkasuunnitelma
• French: itinéraire (fr) m
• Georgian: მარშრუტი (maršruṭi)
• German: Reiseroute (de) f, Reiseweg (de) m, Reiseplan (de) m
• Greek: δρομολόγιο (el) n (dromológio)
• Hungarian: útiterv (hu), útvonal (hu), menetterv
• Italian: itinerario (it) m
• Japanese: 旅程 (ja) (りょてい, ryotei)
• Kazakh: маршрут (marşrut)
• Korean: 여정(旅程) (yeojeong), 려정(旅程) (ryeojeong) (North Korea), 일정(日程) (ko) (iljeong)
• Kyrgyz: маршрут (marşrut)
• Latvian: maršruts m
• Lithuanian: maršrutas m
• Macedonian: маршру́та f (maršrúta)
• Maori: wātaka haerenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rute (no) m or f, reiserute m or f

• Persian: مسیر (fa) (masir)
• Polish: trasa podróży f, plan podróży m, marszruta (pl) f
• Portuguese: linha (pt) f, itinerário (pt) m
• Romanian: itinerar (ro) n
• Russian: маршру́т (ru) m (maršrút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̀ршрӯта f

  Roman: màršrūta (sh) f

• Slovak: itinerár m, trasa f
• Slovene: itinerar m
• Spanish: itinerario m
• Swedish: rutt (sv) c, resrutt c, färdväg (sv) c, färdplan c, resplan c
• Tajik: маршрут (tg) (maršrut), масир (masir)
• Turkish: seyahat yolu, yolculuk yolu
• Ukrainian: маршру́т (uk) m (maršrút)
• Uzbek: marshrut (uz)
• Vietnamese: hành trình (vi)

account or record of a journey

• Bulgarian: пътепи́с m (pǎtepís)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 行程錄／行程录 (hang⁴ cing⁴ luk²)

• Dutch: wegbeschrijving f, reisverslag (nl) f
• Finnish: matkapäiväkirja (fi), matkakertomus (fi)
• German: Reisebericht (de) m
• Hungarian: úti napló
• Macedonian: па́топис m (pátopis)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: veibeskrivelse m

• Old English: færeldbōc f
• Russian: доро́жный дневни́к m (doróžnyj dnevník), путевы́е заме́тки pl (putevýje zamétki)
• Swedish: reseberättelse c, reseskildring (sv) c, resebeskrivning (sv) c, resedagbok c
• Turkish: seyahatname (tr)

guidebook for travellers

• Bulgarian: пътеводи́тел (bg) m (pǎtevodítel)
• Dutch: routebeschrijving (nl), reisgids (nl) f
• Finnish: matkaopas (fi)
• German: Reiseführer (de) m
• Hungarian: útvezető, útikalauz (hu)
• Latin: itinerarium n
• Macedonian: во́дич m (vódič)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reisehåndbok m or f

• Old English: færeldbōc f
• Russian: путеводи́тель (ru) m (putevodítelʹ), ги́д (ru) m (gíd)
• Swedish: resehandbok c, reseguide c
• Turkish: rehber (tr)

Adjective

itinerary (comparative more itinerary, superlative most itinerary)

1. itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     It were rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress.

Further reading

• “itinerary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “itinerary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “itinerary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.