itinerant

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The Word of the Day for October 19 is: 

itinerant   \igh-TIN-uh-runt\   adjective
     : traveling from place to place; especially : covering a 
circuit

Example sentence:
     John Steinbeck's novel, _The Grapes of Wrath_, traces the 
migration of itinerant farm workers from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl 
to California.

Did you know?
     In Latin, "iter" means "way" or "journey." That root was 
the parent of the Late Latin verb "itinerari," meaning "to 
journey." It was that verb which ultimately gave rise to today's 
English word for traveling types: "itinerant." The linguistic 
grandsire, "iter," also contributed to the development of other 
words in our vocabulary, including "itinerary" ("the route of a 
journey" and "the plan made for a journey") and "errant" 
("traveling or given to traveling").