erraticus
Latin
Etymology
From errō + -āticus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /erˈraː.ti.kus/, [ɛrˈräːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /erˈra.ti.kus/, [erˈräːt̪ikus]
Adjective
errāticus (feminine errātica, neuter errāticum); first/second-declension adjective
- wandering, roving
- erratic
- wild
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | errāticus | errātica | errāticum | errāticī | errāticae | errātica | |
Genitive | errāticī | errāticae | errāticī | errāticōrum | errāticārum | errāticōrum | |
Dative | errāticō | errāticō | errāticīs | ||||
Accusative | errāticum | errāticam | errāticum | errāticōs | errāticās | errātica | |
Ablative | errāticō | errāticā | errāticō | errāticīs | |||
Vocative | errātice | errātica | errāticum | errāticī | errāticae | errātica |
Descendants
- Padanian:
- Emilian: aradec
- Lombard: radec
- Romansch: radi
- Venetian: radega (obsolete), radego
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: rajo
- Old French: arage
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Occitan: arratge
- → Aragonese: erage
- → Old Italian: arraggio
- Occitan: arratge
- Derived forms:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *errāticāre
- Lombard: regar, radegar
- Old Ligurian: araigar
- Venetian: radegar
- → Friulian: radegar
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *errāticīre
- Romanian: rătăci
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *errāticāre
- Borrowings:
- → Catalan: erràtic
- → English: erratic
- → French: erratique
- → Italian: erratico
- → Romanian: eratic
- → Spanish: errático
References
- “erraticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “erraticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- erraticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- erraticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “erraticus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 241
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “erraticus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 222