Today's Word "Peripatetic"
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peripatetic \pe-reh-peh-TE-tik\ (adjective) - 1 : On foot, walking from place to place. 2 : Relating to the methods and thought of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking.
"Never one who fancied peripatetic locomotion, particularly in the midday summer sun, Jeff told the gentleman at the auto repair establishment to have his vehicle repaired as rapidly as possible."
Greek peripatetikos from peripatein "to walk up and down," from -patein "to tread." Akin to Sanskrit patha "path, way." The Proto-Indo-European root is pent- "to go." It gives us words like Russian sputnik "fellow traveler," from put- "way or path." Peripatetic also keeps company with "pontiff." This word comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root by way of the Latin pons, pontis "bridge" and means "one who prepares the way."
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