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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error ("wandering about", noun), derived from the verb erro ("to wander, to err"). Cognate with Gothic (airzei, "error"), Gothic (airzjan, "to lead astray"). More at err. By surface analysis, err + -or (suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: er'@(r), IPA(key): /'er@/
- (General American, without the Mary-marry-merry merger) enPR: er'@r, IPA(key): /'er@r/
- IPA(key): (Mary-marry-merry merger) /'er@r/; (some accents) /e@r/
Audio (General American, Mary-marry-merry merger): (file)
- (non-rhotic) Homophone: era
- (in some US pronunciations) Homophones: air, e'er, ere, heir
- (in some US pronunciations) Homophone: err
- Rhymes: -er@(r)
- Hyphenation: err.or
Noun
[edit]error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- Synonyms: wrength, wrong, wrongness, wrongfulness
- 1913, The Inland Printer:
- "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner? [...]"
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- Synonyms: blunder, flub, gaffe, stumble; see also Thesaurus:error
- There was a large error in the accounts.
- 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.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- Synonyms: delinquency, misdoing, wrong; see also Thesaurus:misdeed
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- alpha error
- beta error
- bioerror
- category error
- comedy of errors
- en
- error bar
- error box
- error carried forward
- error catastrophe
- error code
- error correct
- error correction
- error diffusion
- error fare
- errorfree, error-free
- errorful
- error function
- error handler
- error handling
- error in judgement, error in judgment
- errorist
- errorless
- error message
- error of judgement, error of judgment
- error of the first kind
- error of the second kind
- errorous
- error-prone
- error-proneness
- errorproof
- error-ridden
- errorsome
- error treatment
- fatal system error
- fencepost error
- forced error
- human error
- in error
- ironic error
- logic error
- margin of error
- non-error
- off-by-one error
- Othello error
- plaintiff in error
- probable error
- refractive error
- relative error
- rounding error
- see the error of one's ways
- standard error
- stop error
- suberror
- trial and error
- type I error
- type II error
- a error
- b error
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]mistake
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computing: failure to complete task
statistics: difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one
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baseball: play which is scored as having been made incorrectly
appellate law: one or more mistakes in a trial
any alteration in the DNA chemical structure
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Translations to be checked
See also
[edit]- (failure in computing): does not compute
Further reading
[edit]Verb
[edit]error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)
- (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.
- (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
- The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
- (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...
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]To show an error
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to cause or contain an error
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(nonstandard) To make a mistake; to result in an error -- see err
See also
[edit]- Sometimes misspelled errror.
Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]error m (plural errores)
- error
- Synonym: erru
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [@'ror]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [@'ro]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [e'ror]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
[edit]error m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural errors)
- error
- Synonyms: equivoc, equivocacio, incorreccio
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- "error", in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- "error", in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopedia Catalana, 2026
- "error" in Diccionari normatiu valencia, Academia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- "error" in Diccionari catala-valencia-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin errorem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]error m (plural errores)
- error
- Synonym: erro
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- "error", in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruna: Royal Galician Academy, 2012-2026
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From erro ("to err, stray") + -or.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): ['er.ror]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): ['er.ror]
Noun
[edit]error m (genitive erroris); third declension
- wandering, straying, going astray
- wavering, uncertainty
- error, mistake, fault
- delusion (a departing from the truth), misunderstanding
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.789:
- quantum animis erroris 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.)
- Literally:
- quantum animis erroris inest!
- solecism
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | error | errores |
| genitive | erroris | errorum |
| dative | errori | erroribus |
| accusative | errorem | errores |
| ablative | errore | erroribus |
| vocative | error | errores |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]error
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, Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Leopold Favre, 1883-1887)
- "error", in Gaffiot, Felix (1934), Dictionnaire illustre latin-francais, 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 circumcidere
- 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
- the wanderings of Ulysses: errores Ulixis
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin error.[1] First attested in 1595.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -error
- Syllabification: er.ror
Noun
[edit]error m inan
Declension
[edit]Declension of error
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958-1969), "error", in Slownik jezyka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanislaw Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Wladyslaw Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), "error", in Slownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Further reading
[edit]- error in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Magdalena Majdak (08.06.2022), "ERROR", in Elektroniczny Slownik Jezyka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]error m (plural errores)
- error
- Synonyms: equivocacion, yerro
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- "error", in Diccionario de la lengua espanola [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Espanola], 15 December 2025
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