{"id":12434,"date":"2016-06-02T17:31:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12434"},"modified":"2016-06-02T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:31:44","slug":"peripatetic-false-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12434","title":{"rendered":"Peripatetic false friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English word <strong>peripatetic<\/strong> means &#8220;tending to walk about; constantly travelling; itinerant; nomadic&#8221;. It is also related to Aristotle, his philosophy, and the school of thought he founded. A peripatetic teacher is one who teaches in a number of different schools, and it&#8217;s common, at least in the UK, for music teachers and sometimes language teachers, to be peripatetic.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the French <em>p\u00e9ripat\u00e9tique<\/em>, from the Latin <em>peripat\u0113ticus<\/em>, from Ancient Greek <em>\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2<\/em> \u200e(peripat\u0113tik\u00f3s &#8211; given to walking around), from <em>\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9<\/em> \u200e(peripat\u00e9\u014d &#8211; I walk around), from <em>\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03af<\/em> \u200e(per\u00ed &#8211; around) and <em>\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9<\/em> \u200e(pat\u00e9\u014d &#8211; I walk). The French and Latin words mean &#8220;of or relating to Aristotle and his philosophy&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/peripatetic\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The French for a peripatetic teacher is <em>enseignant itin\u00e9rant<\/em>, and a travelling salesman is <em>vendeur ambulant<\/em> and a busker is <em>musicien ambulant<\/em>. The word <em>p\u00e9ripat\u00e9ticien(ne)<\/em> does exist in French, but refers to a streetwalker \/ prostitute [<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/p%C3%A9ripat%C3%A9ticien\">source<\/a>]. So should be handled with caution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English word peripatetic means &#8220;tending to walk about; constantly travelling; itinerant; nomadic&#8221;. It is also related to Aristotle, his philosophy, and the school of thought he founded. A peripatetic teacher is one who teaches in a number of different schools, and it&#8217;s common, at least in the UK, for music teachers and sometimes language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,118,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-greek","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}