# erro
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈɛ.ru]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɛ.ro]

### Verb

erro
* first-person singular present indicative of errar

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* error

### Noun

erro m (plural erros)
* error

## Italian
### Verb

erro
* first-person singular present indicative of errare

### Anagrams

* -orre

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈer.roː/, [ˈɛrːoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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
* 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.)
* to get lost, go astray
* to err, wander from the truth, to mistake
    Synonyms: dēlinquō, lābor, committō, offendō
* 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

$^1$At 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
* wanderer, vagabond, vagrant, rover, hobo, drifter, stray

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### 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, 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
* 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: /ˈe.ʁu/ [ˈe.hu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈe.ʁu/ [ˈe.hu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈe.ʁu/ [ˈe.χu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈe.ʁo/ [ˈe.ho]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈe.ʁu/
* Rhymes: -eʁu
* Hyphenation: er‧ro

#### Noun

erro m (plural erros)
* 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)
* (computing) error (failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination)
* (statistics) error (difference between a measured value and a true one)
* (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: /ˈɛ.ʁu/ [ˈɛ.hu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɛ.ʁu/ [ˈɛ.hu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈɛ.ʁu/ [ˈɛ.χu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɛ.ʁo/ [ˈɛ.ho]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɛ.ʁu/
* Rhymes: -ɛʁu
* Hyphenation: er‧ro

#### Verb

erro
* first-person singular present indicative of errar

## Spanish
### Verb

erro
* first-person singular present indicative of errar