itinerant
adjective
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In Latin, iter means "way" or "journey." That root was the parent of the Late Latin verb itinerari, meaning "to journey." It was that verb which ultimately gave rise to the English word for traveling types: itinerant. The linguistic grandparent, iter, also contributed to the development of other English words, including itinerary ("the route of a journey" and "the plan made for a journey") and errant ("traveling or given to traveling," as in knight-errant).
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2024
Loading your audio article As a young woman in the late 1980s, María Inés Catalán joined a gushing stream of laborers from Mexico chasing seasonal crops in California, following the footsteps of her mother and thousands of other itinerant farm workers desperate for jobs.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024
In the rather melodramatic version of this tale that Marie Arana presents in her new biography of Bolívar, the Liberator emerges as the itinerant hero of a magical realist novel.
—Ilan Stavans, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013
Founded in 2017, the itinerant forum began its first two years in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, followed by three years in Pamplona, Navarra, and is now in its third year in Toledo.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 18 June 2024
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“Itinerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/itinerant. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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