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per⋅e⋅grine

  [per-i-grin, -green, -grahyn]
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–adjective
1. foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
2. wandering, traveling, or migrating.
–noun
3. peregrine falcon.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L peregrīnus foreign, deriv. of peregrē abroad, lit., through (i.e., beyond the borders of) the field, equiv. to per- per- + -egr-, comb. form of ager field + -ē adv. suffix; see -ine 1

Related forms:
per⋅e⋅grin⋅i⋅ty  [per-i-grin-i-tee] , noun
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per·e·grine   (pěr'ə-grĭn, -grēn')   
adj.  

  1. Foreign; alien.

  2. Roving or wandering; migratory.

n.  A peregrine falcon.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin peregrīnus, wandering, pilgrim, from Latin, foreigner, from pereger, being abroad : per-, through; see per- + ager, land; see agro- in Indo-European roots.]
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peregrine 
"type of falcon," 1555, short for peregrine falcon (c.1386), from O.Fr. faulcon pelerin (c.1263), from M.L. falco peregrinus (see peregrination). Sense may have been a bird "caught in transit," as opposed to one taken from the nest.
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