"error" meaning in Latin

See error in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈɛr.rɔr] [Classical-Latin], [ˈɛr.ror] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From erro (“to err, stray”) + -or. Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*h₁ers-}}, {{af|la|erro|-or|t1=to err, stray}} erro (“to err, stray”) + -or Head templates: {{la-noun|error<3>}} error m (genitive errōris); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|error<3>}} Forms: errōris [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], error [nominative, singular], errōrēs [nominative, plural], errōris [genitive, singular], errōrum [genitive, plural], errōrī [dative, singular], errōribus [dative, plural], errōrem [accusative, singular], errōrēs [accusative, plural], errōre [ablative, singular], errōribus [ablative, plural], error [singular, vocative], errōrēs [plural, vocative]
  1. wandering, straying, going astray Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-error-la-noun-oflP9GVd Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin terms suffixed with -or Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 47 6 23 4 2 18 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -or: 55 13 21 8 4
  2. wavering, uncertainty Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-error-la-noun-rQ3mQkmo
  3. error, mistake, fault Tags: declension-3, masculine Synonyms: vitium, culpa, malum, iniūria, noxa, crīmen, peccātum, dēlinquentia, dēlīctum, maleficium
    Sense id: en-error-la-noun-padvk6cT
  4. delusion (a departing from the truth), misunderstanding Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-error-la-noun-ZaKRPz02
  5. solecism Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-error-la-noun-SvQVzeOQ Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 22 20 17 15 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: error typographicus (english: typographical error)
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|la|verb form}} error
  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of errō Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, passive, present, singular Form of: errō
    Sense id: en-error-la-verb-nydIhm9-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "typographical error",
      "translation": "typographical error",
      "word": "error typographicus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "word": "error"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "error"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "error"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "erreur"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "lang_code": "fur",
      "word": "erôr"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "word": "error"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "errore"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Piedmontese",
      "lang_code": "pms",
      "word": "eror"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Old Ruthenian",
          "lang_code": "zle-ort",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "errór",
          "word": "ерро́ръ"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Old Ruthenian",
          "lang_code": "zle-ort",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "erór",
          "word": "еро́ръ"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "learned borrowing",
        "learned"
      ],
      "word": "error"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "erro"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "word": "eroare"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "word": "erruri"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "error"
    }
  ],
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      "name": "root"
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        "3": "-or",
        "t1": "to err, stray"
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      "expansion": "erro (“to err, stray”) + -or",
      "name": "af"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From erro (“to err, stray”) + -or.",
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      "form": "errōris",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "inflection-template"
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    },
    {
      "form": "error",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "errōrēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "errōrum",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "errōrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "errōribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "errōrem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "errōrēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "errōre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "errōribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "error",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "errōrēs",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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  ],
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        "1": "error<3>"
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  "senses": [
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        {
          "_dis": "47 6 23 4 2 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "_dis": "55 13 21 8 4",
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          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -or",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wandering, straying, going astray"
      ],
      "id": "en-error-la-noun-oflP9GVd",
      "links": [
        [
          "wandering",
          "wandering"
        ],
        [
          "straying",
          "straying"
        ],
        [
          "going",
          "going"
        ],
        [
          "astray",
          "astray"
        ]
      ],
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        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
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    {
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        "wavering, uncertainty"
      ],
      "id": "en-error-la-noun-rQ3mQkmo",
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        [
          "wavering",
          "wavering"
        ],
        [
          "uncertainty",
          "uncertainty"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bonum"
        },
        {
          "word": "virtūs"
        },
        {
          "word": "rēctum"
        }
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        "error, mistake, fault"
      ],
      "id": "en-error-la-noun-padvk6cT",
      "links": [
        [
          "error",
          "error#English"
        ],
        [
          "mistake",
          "mistake"
        ],
        [
          "fault",
          "fault"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "vitium"
        },
        {
          "word": "culpa"
        },
        {
          "word": "malum"
        },
        {
          "word": "iniūria"
        },
        {
          "word": "noxa"
        },
        {
          "word": "crīmen"
        },
        {
          "word": "peccātum"
        },
        {
          "word": "dēlinquentia"
        },
        {
          "word": "dēlīctum"
        },
        {
          "word": "maleficium"
        }
      ],
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        "declension-3",
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      ]
    },
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        {
          "english": "Literally:\nHow much of error is there [is present, exists] in understanding [or judgment]!\nOr, interpreted broadly in more natural English:\nPeople make such mistakes! Or: Such misunderstanding!\n(In this section of the poem, an enemy is mistakenly admitted into a house at night.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.789",
          "text": "quantum animīs errōris inest!",
          "translation": "Literally:\nHow much of error is there [is present, exists] in understanding [or judgment]!\nOr, interpreted broadly in more natural English:\nPeople make such mistakes! Or: Such misunderstanding!\n(In this section of the poem, an enemy is mistakenly admitted into a house at night.)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "delusion (a departing from the truth), misunderstanding"
      ],
      "id": "en-error-la-noun-ZaKRPz02",
      "links": [
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          "delusion",
          "delusion"
        ],
        [
          "misunderstanding",
          "misunderstanding"
        ]
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        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
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          "_dis": "22 20 17 15 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "solecism"
      ],
      "id": "en-error-la-noun-SvQVzeOQ",
      "links": [
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          "solecism",
          "solecism"
        ]
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      "tags": [
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      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɛr.rɔr]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɛr.ror]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "error"
}

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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "errō"
        }
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      ],
      "id": "en-error-la-verb-nydIhm9-",
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    "Latin nouns",
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    "Latin third declension nouns",
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    {
      "english": "typographical error",
      "translation": "typographical error",
      "word": "error typographicus"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "word": "error"
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      "lang": "Catalan",
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      "word": "error"
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      "word": "error"
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      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "erreur"
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    {
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "lang_code": "fur",
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    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "word": "error"
    },
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      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "errore"
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    {
      "lang": "Piedmontese",
      "lang_code": "pms",
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      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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      "form": "errōris",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "errōrī",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "errōribus",
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      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "errōrem",
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      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "errōrēs",
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      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "errōre",
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      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "errōribus",
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        "ablative",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "error",
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      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
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      "form": "errōrēs",
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      "glosses": [
        "wandering, straying, going astray"
      ],
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          "wandering",
          "wandering"
        ],
        [
          "straying",
          "straying"
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          "going"
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        "wavering, uncertainty"
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          "word": "bonum"
        },
        {
          "word": "virtūs"
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        {
          "word": "rēctum"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "error, mistake, fault"
      ],
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        [
          "error",
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          "mistake",
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          "word": "vitium"
        },
        {
          "word": "culpa"
        },
        {
          "word": "malum"
        },
        {
          "word": "iniūria"
        },
        {
          "word": "noxa"
        },
        {
          "word": "crīmen"
        },
        {
          "word": "peccātum"
        },
        {
          "word": "dēlinquentia"
        },
        {
          "word": "dēlīctum"
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        {
          "word": "maleficium"
        }
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        {
          "english": "Literally:\nHow much of error is there [is present, exists] in understanding [or judgment]!\nOr, interpreted broadly in more natural English:\nPeople make such mistakes! Or: Such misunderstanding!\n(In this section of the poem, an enemy is mistakenly admitted into a house at night.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.789",
          "text": "quantum animīs errōris inest!",
          "translation": "Literally:\nHow much of error is there [is present, exists] in understanding [or judgment]!\nOr, interpreted broadly in more natural English:\nPeople make such mistakes! Or: Such misunderstanding!\n(In this section of the poem, an enemy is mistakenly admitted into a house at night.)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "delusion (a departing from the truth), misunderstanding"
      ],
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        [
          "delusion",
          "delusion"
        ],
        [
          "misunderstanding",
          "misunderstanding"
        ]
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        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "solecism"
      ],
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          "solecism"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɛr.rɔr]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɛr.ror]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "error"
}

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  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "errō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "first-person singular present passive indicative of errō"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "errō",
          "erro#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "passive",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "error"
}

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