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error

English Edit

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Etymology Edit

From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err.

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Noun Edit

error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)

  1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
    • 1913, The Inland printer:
      "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner? [...]"
  2. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
    • 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.
    • 2022 December 14, “Network News: HGV driver banned after Coulsdon bridge crash”, in RAIL, number 972, page 7:
      "Well over 400 trains and thousands of passengers from across the South were disrupted by this single error of judgement," said Network Rail's Route Director for Sussex, Katie Frost.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
  4. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
  6. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
  7. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
  8. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
  9. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.

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Translations Edit

state, quality, or condition of being wrong — see erroneousness,‎ wrongness
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Verb Edit

error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)

  1. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
    The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
    Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
    This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
  2. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
    The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
  3. (nonstandard) To err.
    • 1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC:
      Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.
    • 2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon:
      By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.
    • 2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford Publishing:
      Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully
    • 2002 May, Sylvain Beauregard, Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan!, Trafford Publishing:
      Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...

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Translations Edit

(nonstandard) To make a mistake; to result in an error — see err

See also Edit

– Sometimes misspelled errror.

Asturian Edit

Etymology Edit

From Latin error.

Noun Edit

error m (plural errores)

  1. error

Catalan Edit

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from Latin error.

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Noun Edit

error m (plural errors)

  1. error
    Synonyms: equivoc, equivocació, incorrecció

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Also used as feminine noun, especially in older usage.

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Galician Edit

Etymology Edit

From Latin error.

Noun Edit

error m (plural errores)

  1. error
    Synonym: erro

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Latin Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

From Proto-Italic *erzōs. Equivalent to erro (“I err, I stray”) +‎ -or.

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Noun Edit

error m (genitive errōris); third declension

  1. wandering, straying, going astray
  2. wavering, uncertainty
  3. error, mistake, fault
    Synonyms: vitium, culpa, malum, iniūria, noxa, crīmen, peccātum, dēlinquentia, dēlictum, maleficium
    Antonyms: bonum, virtūs, rēctum
  4. delusion (a departing from the truth), misunderstanding
    • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.789:
      quantum animīs errōris inest!
      Literally:
      How much of error is there [is present, exists] in understanding [or judgment]!
      Or, interpreted broadly in more natural English:
      People make such mistakes! Or: Such misunderstanding!
      (In this section of the poem, an enemy is mistakenly admitted into a house at night.)
  5. solecism
Declension Edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative error errōrēs
Genitive errōris errōrum
Dative errōrī errōribus
Accusative errōrem errōrēs
Ablative errōre errōribus
Vocative error errōrēs
Descendants Edit
  • Catalan: error
  • English: error
  • French: erreur
  • Friulian: erôr
  • Galician: error
  • Italian: errore
  • Piedmontese: eror
  • Portuguese: erro
  • Romanian: eroare
  • Sicilian: erruri
  • Spanish: error

Etymology 2 Edit

Verb Edit

error

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of errō

References Edit

  • “error”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “error”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • error in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • error in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the wanderings of Ulysses: errores Ulixis
    • to be mistaken: in errore versari
    • to be in gross error, seriously misled: magno errore teneri
    • to be in gross error, seriously misled: in magno errore versari
    • to fall into error: erroribus implicari (Tusc. 4. 27. 58)
    • to take a false step: per errorem labi, or simply labi
    • to lead a person into error: aliquem in errorem inducere, rapere
    • to get a mistaken notion into the mind: errorem animo imbibere
    • to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
    • to banish an error, do away with a false impression: errorem tollere
    • to banish an error, do away with a false impression: errorem amputare et circumcīdere
    • to totally eradicate false principles: errorem stirpitus extrahere
    • to amend, correct one's mistake: errorem deponere, corrigere
    • to undeceive a person: alicui errorem demere, eripere, extorquere
    • (ambiguous) erroneous opinion: opinionis error
    • (ambiguous) a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus

Spanish Edit

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from Latin error.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /eˈroɾ/ [eˈroɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: e‧rror

Noun Edit

error m (plural errores)

  1. error
    Synonyms: equivocación, yerro

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