peripatetic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   traveling especially on foot

   Peripatetic country preachers.

2. 2
   adj

   Alternative letter-case form of Peripatetic.

   The true peripatetic school.

3. 3
   noun

   Alternative letter-case form of Peripatetic (“Aristotelian”).

   He who would think clearly must think like a peripatetic even if he is unwilling to walk like one.

From Latin peripatēticus, from Ancient Greek περίπατος (perípatos, “strolling, covered walk, conversation while walking”), from περιπατέω (peripatéō, “to walk around”), from περί (perí, “around”) + πατέω (patéō, “to walk”). Aristotle’s school was sometimes called the περιπατητικοί (peripatētikoí) "those who are prone to walking" or οἱ ἐκ τοῦ περιπάτου (hoi ek toû peripátou, “those from the walk”) in reference either to his supposed habit of teaching while traversing the περίπατοι (perípatoi, “walkways”) of the Lyceum or simply to the walkways themselves with which the school became associated.

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