EuroLex/E/Globe-trotter

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: globe-trotter/globetrotter 'a person travelling widely'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian globtroter beg20c meaning: see above, status: fully accepted DEA*
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch globe-trotter [ɤlo:bətrɔtər] beg20c meaning: see above; status: fully accepted, but still marked as English, equally frequent as wereldreiziger DEA*
English globetrotter/globe-trotter globe: 1551, 'sphere' from Latin globus 'round mass, sphere', related to gleba 'clod, soil, land'; sense of 'planet earth' or a three-dimensional map of it first attested 1553;

trotter: from Old French troter 'to trot, to go' from Frankish trotton (cf. O.H.G. trotton 'to tread'), from a variant of the Gmc. base of tread (q.v.); the verb is attested in Eng. from 1362; It. trottare, Sp. trotar also are borrowed from Gmc.

meaning: see above dito Etymonline [1]
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish - - - - DEA*
French globetrotter [glɔbtRɔtœR/tRɔtɛR] end19c meaning: see above; status: restricted use, obsolescent DEA*
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Globetrotter [glo:bətrota] beg20c meaning: see above; status: fully accepted and integrated, equally frequent as the translation Weltenbummler DEA*
Hungarian globe-trotter [glo:btrotter] beg20c meaning: see above; status: restricted use, archaic, less frequent than világjáró DEA*
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian globe-trotter [globtrɔtter] 1900s meaning: see above; status: restricted use, less frequent than giramondo DEA*
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian globe-trotter [= Engl. pron./glu:b(e)trɔter] beg20c meaning: see above; status: restricted to technical use DEA*
Polish globtroter [gloptroter] beg20c meaning: see above; status: fully accepted, but still marked as English DEA*
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish -, translation trotamundos DEA*
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...
  • Annotations: *DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.

Information on Other Languages

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  • Icelandic: not existent, instead: heimshornaflakkari.
  • Romanian: globe-trotter [= Engl. pron.], mid20c(?), restricted use.
  • Russian: globtrotter, 1990s, restricted to journalese.
  • Greek: not existent, instead: translation kosmoghyristis/-ismenos.,