# errar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin errāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əˈra]
* IPA: (Valencia) [eˈraɾ]

### Verb

errar (first-person singular present erro, first-person singular preterite errí, past participle errat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
* (intransitive) to roam, to wander
* (transitive) to do something incorrectly
    Antonym: encertar

#### Derived terms

* erra
* errada
* erradívol
* errador
* errívol
* erro

#### Related terms

* errabund
* errant
* errata
* erràtic
* erroni
* error
* inerrable
* inerrant

### Further reading

* “errar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “errar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “errar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “errar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese errar, from Latin errāre (“to err”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /eˈʁa(ʁ)/ [eˈha(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /eˈʁa(ʁ)/ [eˈha(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /eˈʁa(ɾ)/ [eˈha(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /eˈʁa(ʁ)/ [eˈχa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /eˈʁa(ɻ)/ [eˈha(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /eˈʁaɾ/, /iˈʁaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /eˈʁaɾ/, /iˈʁaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /eˈʁa.ɾi/, /iˈʁa.ɾi/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /ɛ.ˈɦa(h)/
* Hyphenation: er‧rar

### Verb

errar (first-person singular present erro, first-person singular preterite errei, past participle errado)
* (intransitive) to err (make a mistake)
    Synonyms: enganar-se, equivocar-se
    Antonym: acertar
    Errei quando mudei de emprego. ― I made a mistake when I changed my job.
    Errei no cálculo. ― I erred in the calculation.
* (transitive) to miss (fail to hit)
    Antonyms: acertar, atingir
    A bala errou o alvo. ― The bullet missed the target.
* (transitive) to do something incorrectly
    Antonym: acertar
    Se errares o passo, cairás. ― If you miss your step you will fall.
* (intransitive) to roam (wander or travel freely and with no specific destination)
    Synonyms: perambular, vagar, vaguear

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Derived terms

* me erra

#### Related terms

* errado
* errante
* erro
* erróneo

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin errāre. Related to English and Spanish error.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eˈraɾ/ [eˈraɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: e‧rrar
* Homophone: herrar

### Verb

errar (first-person singular present (Spain) yerro or (Latin America) erro, first-person singular preterite erré, past participle errado)
* (transitive) to miss
* (transitive, poetic) to be wrong, to err
    Synonyms: equivocarse, marrar
* (intransitive, poetic) to wander around, roam
    Synonyms: divagar, vagar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive. $^3$Spain. $^4$Latin America.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
$^1$Spain. $^2$Latin America.

#### Derived terms

* errante
* errar es humano
* erre que erre
* yerro

#### Related terms

* aberrar
* erróneo
* error

### Further reading

* “errar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10