errabund
English
Etymology
Latin errabundus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛɹəbʌnd/
Adjective
errabund (comparative more errabund, superlative most errabund)
- Erratic, prone to err.
- 1835, Robert Southey, “Interchapter XIII. A Peep from behind the Curtain.”, in The Doctor, &c., volume III, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, OCLC 1179713, page 345:
- [Y]ou, with your errabund guesses, veering to all points of the literary compass, amused the many-humoured yet single-minded Pantagruelist, [...]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for errabund in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- unbarred, underbar
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin errabundus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ə.rəˈbunt/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ə.rəˈbun/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /e.raˈbunt/
Adjective
errabund (feminine errabunda, masculine plural errabunds, feminine plural errabundes)
- wandering
- Synonym: errant
Further reading
- “errabund” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.