Word of the day= Peripatetic in Italian >> peripatetico, used to refer to sidewalk prostitutes .

Word of the DaySaturday, July 25, 2009peripatetic\pair-uh-puh-TET-ik\ , adjective: 1.Of or pertaining to walking about or traveling from place to place; itinerant.2.Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.noun: 1.One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.2.A follower of Aristotle; an Aristotelian. See the full Dictionary.com entry |See Synonyms on Thesaurus.com Quotes: Nevertheless, the attachment which in later life he developed towards Charleston suggests that his peripatetic childhood had left unsatisfied his need for a permanent home. -- Frances Spalding, Duncan Grant: A Biography I was born in Italy, my sister on the west coast of Canada, because my father was pursuing a peripatetic career as an artist. -- Anna Shapiro, USA Today, July 13, 2000 He would have a long way to go before he would match his peripatetic father. Nick had now moved five times and lived in four states from Kentucky to California. -- Allen Barra, Inventing Wyatt Earp Origin: Peripatetic derives from Greek peripatetikos, from peripatein, "to walk about," from peri-, "around, about" + patein, "to walk."