erro
GalicianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
erro m (plural erros)
ItalianEdit
VerbEdit
erro
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Italic *erzāō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers-.
VerbEdit
errō (present infinitive errāre, perfect active errāvī, supine errātum); first conjugation
- I 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
- I get lost, go astray
- I err, wander from the truth, I mistake
- I hesitate, vacillate
Usage notesEdit
- Mostly intransitive and taking impersonal passive use.
- Transitive use by Augustan poets and only in perfect passive participle meaning "wandered over or through".
ConjugationEdit
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From errō + -ō (noun-forming suffix).
NounEdit
errō m (genitive errōnis); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | errō | errōnēs |
Genitive | errōnis | errōnum |
Dative | errōnī | errōnibus |
Accusative | errōnem | errōnēs |
Ablative | errōne | errōnibus |
Vocative | errō | errōnēs |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “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 IrishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronounEdit
erro
PortugueseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese erro, from earlier error, from Latin error.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: er‧ro
NounEdit
erro m (plural erros)
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:erro.
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: er‧ro
VerbEdit
erro
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:errar.
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
erro