err
Translingual
Symbol
errCategory:Translingual lemmas#ERRCategory:Translingual symbols#ERRCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#ERRCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#ERRCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
See also
English
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ERRCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ers-#ERRFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ERRCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ERR erren, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#ERR errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ERR errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ERR *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɜː/Category:English 1-syllable words#ERRCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ERR
- (US) IPA(key): /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/Category:English 2-syllable words#ERRCategory:English 1-syllable words#ERRCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ERR
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ɛr/Category:English 1-syllable words#ERRCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ERR
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /øː/Category:English 1-syllable words#ERRCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ERR
- (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /eː/Category:English 1-syllable words#ERRCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ERR
- (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /ɛː/Category:English 1-syllable words#ERRCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ERR
- (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /ɜː(ɹ)/Category:English 1-syllable words#ERRCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ERR
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)#ERRCategory:Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)/1 syllable#ERRCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛə(ɹ)#ERRCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛə(ɹ)/1 syllable#ERR
- Homophone: (all non-US pronunciations, /ɝ/ US pronunciation:) erCategory:English terms with homophones#ERR
- Homophones: (/ɛɚ/ US pronunciation, all fair–fur merger pronunciations:) air, are (“unit of measurement”), ayr, Ayr, e'er, ere, eyre, heirCategory:English terms with homophones#ERR
Verb
err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)Category:English lemmas#ERRCategory:English verbs#ERRCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ERRCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ERR, formalCategory:English formal terms#ERR) To make a mistake.
- He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.Category:English terms with usage examples#ERR
- 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation, page 7:
- Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.Category:English terms with quotations#ERR
- 1989, L[eften] S[tavros] Stavrianos, Lifelines from Our Past: A New World History, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 211:
- Gorbachev’s phrase, “fear to err,” is strikingly reminiscent of President Roosevelt’s phrase, “nothing to fear but fear itself.”Category:English terms with quotations#ERR
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ERR) To sin.
- To err is human, to forgive, divine.Category:English terms with usage examples#ERR
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#ERR) to stray.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:make a mistake
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Interjection
errCategory:English lemmas#ERRCategory:English interjections#ERRCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ERRCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
- Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”)Category:English elongated forms#ERR.
- Err... what did you just say?Category:English terms with usage examples#ERR
Albanian
Etymology
According to Orel, Proto-AlbanianCategory:Albanian terms inherited from Proto-Albanian#ERCategory:Albanian terms derived from Proto-Albanian#ER *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Albanian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#ERCategory:Albanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ER *h₂ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).
Another theory links it to Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Albanian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#ERCategory:Albanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ER *h₁régʷos, but the phonological development required seems implausible.
Noun
err mCategory:Albanian lemmas#ERCategory:Albanian nouns#ERCategory:Albanian entries with incorrect language header#ERCategory:Albanian masculine nouns#ERCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
Declension
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Category:Requests for inflections in Albanian entries#ERCategory:Requests for inflections in Albanian entries#ERVerb
errCategory:Albanian lemmas#ERCategory:Albanian verbs#ERCategory:Albanian entries with incorrect language header#ERCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
Derived terms
Further reading
- “err”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026
- “err”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language], 1980
- Newmark, Leonard (1999), “err”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
Estonian
Noun
err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])Category:Estonian lemmas#ERRCategory:Estonian nouns#ERRCategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#ERRCategory:Requests for inflections in Estonian entries#ERRCategory:Requests for inflections in Estonian entries#ERRCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
- The name of the Latin script letter R/r.Category:et:Latin letter names#ERR
Faroese
Noun
err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)Category:Faroese lemmas#ERRCategory:Faroese nouns#ERRCategory:Faroese entries with incorrect language header#ERRCategory:Faroese neuter nouns#ERRCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
- The name of the Latin script letter R/r.Category:fo:Latin letter names#ERR
Declension
See also
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɛrː]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#ERR
- Hyphenation: err
- Rhymes: -ɛrːCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛrː#ERRCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛrː/1 syllable#ERR
Noun
errCategory:Hungarian lemmas#ERRCategory:Hungarian nouns#ERRCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#ERRCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
- The name of the Latin script letter R/r.Category:hu:Latin letter names#ERR
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | err | errek |
| accusative | erret | erreket |
| dative | errnek | erreknek |
| instrumental | errel | errekkel |
| causal-final | errért | errekért |
| translative | erré | errekké |
| terminative | errig | errekig |
| essive-formal | errként | errekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | errben | errekben |
| superessive | erren | erreken |
| adessive | errnél | erreknél |
| illative | errbe | errekbe |
| sublative | erre | errekre |
| allative | errhez | errekhez |
| elative | errből | errekből |
| delative | erről | errekről |
| ablative | errtől | errektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
erré | erreké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
erréi | errekéi |
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, essCategory:Hungarian links with manual fragments#ERR, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)
Further reading
- r in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)Category:Icelandic lemmas#ERRCategory:Icelandic nouns#ERRCategory:Icelandic entries with incorrect language header#ERRCategory:Icelandic neuter nouns#ERRCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
- The name of the Latin script letter R/r.Category:is:Latin letter names#ERR
Declension
Võro
Noun
err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])Category:Võro lemmas#ERRCategory:Võro nouns#ERRCategory:Võro entries with incorrect language header#ERRCategory:Requests for inflections in Võro entries#ERRCategory:Requests for inflections in Võro entries#ERRCategory:Pages with entries#ERRCategory:Pages with 8 entries#ERR
- The name of the Latin script letter R/r.Category:vro:Latin letter names#ERR
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Category:Requests for inflections in Võro noun entries#ERRCategory:Requests for inflections in Võro entries#ERR