deleatur

deleatur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin deleatur

Noun

deleatur (plural deleaturs)

1. (printing) dele (“mark signifying deletion”)
   • 2011, José Saramago, History of the Siege Of Lisbon (page 32)

     […] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]

Anagrams

• lautered

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Latin

Verb

dēleātur

1. third-person singular present passive subjunctive of dēleō