Noun: error
| Singular | error |
| Plural | errors |
Sample Sentences
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"Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner?[…]" [1913, The Inland Printer:]
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There was a large error in the accounts.
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Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. [2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2011:]
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"Well over 400 trains and thousands of passengers from across the South were disrupted by this single error of judgement," said Network Rail's Route Director for Sussex, Katie Frost. [2022 December 14, “Network News: HGV driver banned after Coulsdon bridge crash”, in RAIL, number 972, page 7:]
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I've finally seen the error of my ways.
Nouns inflected like error
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”, noun), derived from the verb errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err. By surface analysis, err + -or (suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition). Displaced native Old English dwild (“error”). See: Latin Nouns '
error', Gothic Nouns '
𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹'.
Verbs referencing "error"
German Nouns
Irrtum.