erratus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of errō (“go astray, err”).

Participle

errātus (feminine errāta, neuter errātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. (rare) (having been) wandered over; (having been) wandered astray; (having been) roved about
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.573–574:
      quō feror? inmēnsum est errātās dīcere terrās:
      praeteritus Cererī nūllus in orbe locus.
      Where am I being carried? Immense is [my] task to tell the lands having been wandered over [by her]:
      Not a place in the world went unvisited by Ceres.
      (Demeter or Ceres (mythology) searched everywhere for her daughter Persephone or Proserpina. Note Ovid’s word play with the matching vowel and consonant sounds of errātās and terrās.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative errātus errāta errātum errātī errātae errāta
Genitive errātī errātae errātī errātōrum errātārum errātōrum
Dative errātō errātō errātīs
Accusative errātum errātam errātum errātōs errātās errāta
Ablative errātō errātā errātō errātīs
Vocative errāte errāta errātum errātī errātae errāta

Derived terms

References
  • “erratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “erratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • erratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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