aberr
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aberr (third-person singular simple present aberrs, present participle aberring, simple past and past participle aberred)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go astray; to err. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.][1]
- (transitive, rare) Distort; aberrate. [First attested in the late 19th century.][1]
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aberr”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.