errans
Latin
editEtymology
editPresent active participle of errō.
Participle
editerrāns (genitive errantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- straying, errant, erring
- wandering, wandering about, roving, straying, roaming
- (figuratively) wandering as an unclear mental state
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.669:
- expedit errantem nemorī grātissima coniūnx
- [His] wife, dearest to the grove, frees [him from] wandering.
(Egeria (mythology) explains a dream which King Numa Pompilius cannot understand; idiomatically, Egeria resolves his uncertainty.)
- [His] wife, dearest to the grove, frees [him from] wandering.
- expedit errantem nemorī grātissima coniūnx
Declension
editThird-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | errāns | errantēs | errantia | ||
Genitive | errantis | errantium | |||
Dative | errantī | errantibus | |||
Accusative | errantem | errāns | errantēs errantīs |
errantia | |
Ablative | errante errantī1 |
errantibus | |||
Vocative | errāns | errantēs | errantia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “errans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- errans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the planets: stellae errantes, vagae
- to direct a person who has lost his way: erranti viam monstrare
- the planets: stellae errantes, vagae