erro
Catalan
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈer.roː/, [ˈɛrːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈer.ro/, [ˈɛrːo]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *erzāō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers-.
Verb
errō (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
- Mostly intransitive and taking impersonal passive use.
- Transitive use by Augustan poets and only in perfect passive participle meaning "wandered over or through".
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Noun
errō m (genitive errōnis); third declension
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
References
- “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, 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
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from earlier error, borrowed from Latin errōrem.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈe.ʁu/ [ˈe.hu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈe.ʁu/ [ˈe.χu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈe.ʁo/ [ˈe.ho]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈe.ʁu/
- Hyphenation: er‧ro
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:erro.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ʁu/ [ˈɛ.hu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ʁu/ [ˈɛ.χu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ʁo/ [ˈɛ.ho]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ʁu/
- Hyphenation: er‧ro
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:errar.