erro

See also: Erro, erró, and errò

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

erro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of errar

Galician

Alternative forms

Noun

erro m (plural erros)

  1. error

Italian

Verb

erro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of errare

Anagrams
  • -orre

Latin

Pronunciation

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,
errāvēre,
errārunt1
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 active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives errāre errāvisse,
errāsse1		 errātūrum esse errārī errātum esse errātum īrī
participles errāns — errātūrus — errātus errandus
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
Descendants
  • Catalan: errar
  • → Esperanto: erari
  • Galician: errar
  • Ido: erorar
  • Interlingua: errar
  • Italian: errare
  • Occitan: errar
  • Old French: errer
  • Portuguese: errar
  • Spanish: 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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative errō errōnēs
Genitive errōnis errōnum
Dative errōnī errōnibus
Accusative errōnem errōnēs
Ablative errōne errōnibus
Vocative errō errōnēs
Derived terms

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, 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.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈe.ʁu/ [ˈe.hu]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈe.ʁu/ [ˈe.χu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈe.ʁo/ [ˈe.ho]

  • Hyphenation: er‧ro

Noun

erro m (plural erros)

  1. error
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:erro.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ʁu/ [ˈɛ.hu]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ʁu/ [ˈɛ.χu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ʁo/ [ˈɛ.ho]

  • Hyphenation: er‧ro

Verb

erro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of errar
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:errar.

Spanish

Verb

erro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of errar
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