erro
Catalan
editPronunciation
editVerb
editerro
Galician
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editerro m (plural erros)
Italian
editVerb
editerro
Anagrams
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈer.roː/, [ˈɛrːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈer.ro/, [ˈɛrːo]
Etymology 1
editFrom Proto-Italic *erzāō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers-.
Verb
editerrō (present infinitive errāre, perfect active errāvī, supine errātum); first conjugation
- to wander, rove, stray, roam
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.31–32:
- arcēbat longē Latiō, multōsque per annōs
errābant, āctī fātīs, maria omnia circum.- [Juno] was keeping [the Trojans] far away from Latium, and through many years – driven by the Fates – they were wandering the seas all around.
(The Trojans had been – and still were – wandering on their years-long odyssey to reach Latium in Italy. See: Latium.)
- [Juno] was keeping [the Trojans] far away from Latium, and through many years – driven by the Fates – they were wandering the seas all around.
- arcēbat longē Latiō, multōsque per annōs
- to get lost, go astray
- to err, wander from the truth, to mistake
- to hesitate, vacillate
Usage notes
edit- Mostly intransitive and taking impersonal passive use.
- Transitive use by Augustan poets and only in perfect passive participle meaning "wandered over or through".
Conjugation
edit1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editFrom errō + -ō (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
editerrō m (genitive errōnis); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | errō | errōnēs |
Genitive | errōnis | errōnum |
Dative | errōnī | errōnibus |
Accusative | errōnem | errōnēs |
Ablative | errōne | errōnibus |
Vocative | errō | errōnēs |
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “erro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “erro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- erro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be in gross error, seriously misled: vehementer errare
- to make a chronological mistake: temporibus errare (Phil. 2. 9. 23)
- he has made several mistakes: saepe (crebro, multa) peccavit, erravit, lapsus est
- (ambiguous) erroneous opinion: opinionis error
- (ambiguous) a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
- to be in gross error, seriously misled: vehementer errare
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editPronoun
editerro
Portuguese
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese erro, from earlier error, borrowed from Latin errōrem.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: er‧ro
Noun
editerro m (plural erros)
Quotations
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:erro.
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: er‧ro
Verb
editerro
Quotations
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:errar.
Spanish
editVerb
editerro
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