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aberrate

Meaningto wander off

Common meaning: to stray from the normal path

‘away, off’ + ‘to wander, go astray’ → aberrate

Journey through time

  1. Latinerrō, errāre‘to wander, go astray’
  2. Englishaberrate‘to stray from the normal path’ · today

ab- also in: abhorabortabuseaboundabrupt

err also in: erraticerratically

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin errō ‘to wander, go astray’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry errō, p. 657 · dictionary scan

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erraticerratically

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