Nomad

From Middle French nomade, from Latin Nomas (the name of wandering pastoral peoples), from Greek nomas, nomados (roaming, wandering, especially to find pasture), from nemein (to distribute, to pasture animals). The semantic core is movement across land driven by the need for grazing. The word entered English carrying this pastoral sense and was later extended to any person or way of life without fixed settlement.

The compound digital nomad, referring to people who work remotely while traveling continuously, became widely current in the early twenty-first century and extended the word beyond its original pastoral and anthropological sense.