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peripatético

Portuguese, noun

peripatético is spelled P-E-R-I-P-A-T-É-T-I-C-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese, the 209,413th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peripatético is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “peripatetic (follower of Aristotle or Aristotelianism)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “seguidor da filosofia de Aristóteles”.

What does peripatético mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    peripatetic

noun

  1. 1

    masculineperipatetic (follower of Aristotle or Aristotelianism)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. relativo ao peripatetismo 2. que ensina caminhando, ao ar livre 3. de modos exagerados

noun: 1. seguidor da filosofia de Aristóteles

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of peripatético

  • peripatética feminine
  • peripatéticos masculine plural
  • peripatéticas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is peripatético in Portuguese?

peripatético appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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