Peripatetic \pair-uh-puh-TET-ik\ adjective
1. Of or pertaining to walking about or traveling from place to place; itinerant.
2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens).
Origin:
Peripatetic derives from Greek
peripatetikos, from
peripatein, "to walk about," from
peri-, "around, about" +
patein "to walk".
Published on May 03, 2011 07:25