Το
peripatetic είναι
περιπατητικός μόνο όταν αναφέρεται στον Περίπατο (τη φιλοσοφική σχολή του Αριστοτέλη) και την περιπατητική φιλοσοφία. Διαφορετικά, σημαίνει
αυτόν που κινείται από τόπο σε τόπο, τον
μετακινούμενο, τον
περιοδεύοντα (από Magenta,
εδώ). Παράδειγμα:
peripatetic teacher μετακινούμενος διδάσκαλος.
Από το OED:
peripatetic, a. and n. (pɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪk)
[a. F. péripatétique (in 14th c. pery-, Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. peripatēticus belonging to the peripatetic philosophy, a. Gr. περιπατητικός given to walking about, f. περιπατητ-ής one who walks about, f. περί about, around + πατεῖν to tread, to walk; in reference to the custom of Aristotle, who taught while walking in a περίπατος or place for walking in the Lyceum at Athens.]
A.A adj.
2 Walking about or from place to place in connexion with some occupation or calling; itinerant.
Often humorous, with a glance at sense.
1642 Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 13 Peregrination‥may be not improperly called a moving Academy or the true Peripatetique Schoole. 1662 S. P. Acc. Latitude Men 15 A certain Peripatetick Artificer‥came that way, who under⁓took to mend it. 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ. 13. 1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 11 May 301/2 A persecuted and peripatetic lady. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. viii, His Peripatetic habits, favourable to Meditation. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 258 Peripatetic mountebanks used‥to include a goat among their stage properties.
Από τον
Guardian:
It is his [e.g. George Papandreou's] peripatetic childhood – he was raised in the US, Sweden, Canada and the UK – that has, say friends, given him the distance to look at Greece with a detachment that is rare among his bickering Balkan compatriots. Also a fluent Swedish speaker, Papandreou has publicly said he would like nothing more than to see his country become the Denmark of the south.
Ευχαριστώ για την πάσα, τα καλούδια, και την έμπνευση από εδώ.