erratus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of errō (“go astray, err”).
Participle
errātus (feminine errāta, neuter errātum); first/second-declension participle
- (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.)
- Where am I being carried? Immense is [my] task to tell the lands having been wandered over [by her]:
- quō feror? inmēnsum est errātās dīcere 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
- errātum
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