erro

See also: Erro, erró, and errò

Basque

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ero/ [e.ro]
• Rhymes: -ero, -o
• Hyphenation: e‧rro

Noun

erro inan

1. root
2. (by extension) origin, basis
3. hinge
4. nipple (of an udder)
5. (zoology) tentacle
6. (mathematics) root
7. (linguistics) root
8. lineage

Declension

Declension of erro (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	erro	erroa	erroak
ergative	errok	erroak	erroek
dative	errori	erroari	erroei
genitive	erroren	erroaren	erroen
comitative	errorekin	erroarekin	erroekin
causative	errorengatik	erroarengatik	erroengatik
benefactive	errorentzat	erroarentzat	erroentzat
instrumental	erroz	erroaz	erroez
inessive	errotan	erroan	erroetan
locative	errotako	erroko	erroetako
allative	errotara	errora	erroetara
terminative	errotaraino	erroraino	erroetaraino
directive	errotarantz	errorantz	erroetarantz
destinative	errotarako	errorako	erroetarako
ablative	errotatik	errotik	erroetatik
partitive	errorik	—	—
prolative	errotzat	—	—

Derived terms

• errape (“udder”)
• erro karratu (“square root”)
• erro kubiko (“cubic root”)
• erroak bota
• erroak egin
• erroak eman
• errodura
• erroketa
• errokizun

Further reading

• “erro”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “erro”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɛ.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɛ.ro]

Verb

erro

1. first-person singular present indicative of errar

Galician

Alternative forms

• error

Noun

erro m (plural erros)

1. error

Italian

Verb

erro

1. first-person singular present indicative of errare

Anagrams

• -orre

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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

1. to wander, rove, stray, roam

   Synonyms: pererrō, pervagor, vagor, peragrō, discurrō, lūstrō, perlūstrō, pālor

   • 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.)

2. to get lost, go astray
3. to err, wander from the truth, to mistake

   Synonyms: dēlinquō, lābor, committō, offendō

4. to hesitate, vacillate

   Synonyms: pendeō, dubitō, fluitō, vagor

   Antonym: cōnstō

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

   Conjugation of errō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	errō		errās		errat		errāmus		errātis		errant
	imperfect	errābam		errābās		errābat		errābāmus		errābātis		errābant
	future	errābō		errābis		errābit		errābimus		errābitis		errābunt
	perfect	errāvī		errāvistī, errāstī1		errāvit, errāt1		errāvimus, errāmus1		errāvistis, errāstis1		errāvērunt, errārunt, errāvēre1
	pluperfect	errāveram, errāram1		errāverās, errārās1		errāverat, errārat1		errāverāmus, errārāmus1		errāverātis, errārātis1		errāverant, errārant1
	future perfect	errāverō, errārō1		errāveris, errāris1		errāverit, errārit1		errāverimus, errārimus1		errāveritis, errāritis1		errāverint, errārint1
passive	present	error		errāris, errāre		errātur		errāmur		errāminī		errantur
	imperfect	errābar		errābāris, errābāre		errābātur		errābāmur		errābāminī		errābantur
	future	errābor		errāberis, errābere		errābitur		errābimur		errābiminī		errābuntur
	perfect	errātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	errātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	errātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	errem		errēs		erret		errēmus		errētis		errent
	imperfect	errārem		errārēs		errāret		errārēmus		errārētis		errārent
	perfect	errāverim, errārim1		errāverīs, errārīs1		errāverit, errārit1		errāverīmus, errārīmus1		errāverītis, errārītis1		errāverint, errārint1
	pluperfect	errāvissem, errāssem1		errāvissēs, errāssēs1		errāvisset, errāsset1		errāvissēmus, errāssēmus1		errāvissētis, errāssētis1		errāvissent, errāssent1
passive	present	errer		errēris, errēre		errētur		errēmur		errēminī		errentur
	imperfect	errārer		errārēris, errārēre		errārētur		errārēmur		errārēminī		errārentur
	perfect	errātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	errātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		errā		—		—		errāte		—
	future	—		errātō		errātō		—		errātōte		errantō
passive	present	—		errāre		—		—		errāminī		—
	future	—		errātor		errātor		—		—		errantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		errāre			errārī			errāns			—
future		errātūrum esse			errātum īrī			errātūrus			errandus
perfect		errāvisse, errāsse1			errātum esse			—			errātus
future perfect		—			errātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		errātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		errandī		errandō		errandum		errandō		errātum		errātū

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

• aberrō
• aderrō
• circumerrō
• cōerrō
• dēerrō
• exerrō
• inerrō
• intererrō
• oberrō
• pererrō
• suberrō

Related terms

• errābundus
• errantia
• errāticus
• errātiō
• errātor
• errātum
• errōneus
• error

Descendants

• Catalan: errar
• Galician: errar
• Italian: errare
• Occitan: errar
• Old French: errer
  • French: errer
  • Norman: èrrer (Jersey)
  • → Middle English: erren
    • English: err
• Portuguese: errar
• Spanish: errar, ⇒ yerro
• → Esperanto: erari
• → Ido: erorar
• → Interlingua: errar

Etymology 2

From errō +‎ -ō (noun-forming suffix).

Noun

errō m (genitive errōnis); third declension

1. wanderer, vagabond, vagrant, rover, hobo, drifter, stray

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	errō	errōnēs
genitive	errōnis	errōnum
dative	errōnī	errōnibus
accusative	errōnem	errōnēs
ablative	errōne	errōnibus
vocative	errō	errōnēs

Derived terms

• errōneus

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^[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
    

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• airiu, erru, erriu, airriu, erthu, airthiu, airtho

Pronoun

erro

1. third-person plural accusative of ar

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese erro, from earlier error, borrowed from Latin errōrem.

Alternative forms

• êrro (pre-reform spelling)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ʁu/ [ˈe.hu]

• (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/

• Rhymes: -eʁu
• Hyphenation: er‧ro

Noun

erro m (plural erros)

1. error; mistake
   • 1927, Emílio de San Bruno, chapter XIII, in Zambeziana: scenas da vida colonial [Zambeziana: scenes of the colonial life], Lisbon: Tipografia do Comércio, page 202:

     — V. Ex.ª labora num êrro, senhor tenente.

     “Your Excellency is mistaken, mister lieutenant.”

   • 1999, Os pecados da língua: pequeno repertório de grandes erros de linguagem, Editora AGE Ltda., →ISBN, page 114:

     O erro estava na receita, pois l é símbolo de litro e não abreviatura de lata, palavra que não pode ser abreviada, por questões de clareza.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (computing) error (failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination)
3. (statistics) error (difference between a measured value and a true one)
4. (linguistics) error (unintentional deviation from a language’s inherent rules by a learner)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ʁu/ [ˈɛ.hu]

• (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/

• Rhymes: -ɛʁu
• Hyphenation: er‧ro

Verb

erro

1. first-person singular present indicative of errar

Spanish

Verb

erro

1. first-person singular present indicative of errar