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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).

error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)

  1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
    Synonyms: wrength, wrong, wrongness, wrongfulness
    • 1913, The Inland Printer:
      "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner? […]"
  2. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
    Synonyms: blunder, flub, gaffe, stumble; see also Thesaurus:error
    There was a large error in the accounts.
    • 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎[1], archived from the original on 22 December 2011:
      Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.
    • 2022 December 14, “Network News: HGV driver banned after Coulsdon bridge crash”, in RAIL, number 972, page 7:
      "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.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
    Synonyms: delinquency, misdoing, wrong; see also Thesaurus:misdeed
    I've finally seen the error of my ways.
  4. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
  5. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
  6. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
  7. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
  8. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
  9. (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.

mistake

statistics: difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one

Translations to be checked

error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)

  1. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
    The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
    Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
    This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
  2. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
    The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
  3. (nonstandard) To err.
    • 1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC:
      Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.
    • 2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon:
      By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.
    • 2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford Publishing:
      Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully
    • 2002 May, Sylvain Beauregard, Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan!, Trafford Publishing:
      Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...

To show an error

to cause or contain an error

(nonstandard) To make a mistake; to result in an error — see err

– Sometimes misspelled errror.

Borrowed from Latin errōrem.

error m (plural errores)

  1. error
    Synonym: erru

Borrowed from Latin errōrem.

error m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural errors)

  1. error
    Synonyms: equivoc, equivocació, incorrecció

Learned borrowing from Latin errōrem.

error m (plural errores)

  1. error
    Synonym: erro

From erro (“to err, stray”) +‎ -or.

error m (genitive errōris); third declension

  1. wandering, straying, going astray
  2. wavering, uncertainty
  3. error, mistake, fault
    Synonyms: vitium, culpa, malum, iniūria, noxa, crīmen, peccātum, dēlinquentia, dēlīctum, maleficium
    Antonyms: bonum, virtūs, rēctum
  4. delusion (a departing from the truth), misunderstanding
    • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.789:
      quantum animīs errōris inest!
      Literally:
      How much of error is there [is present, exists] in understanding [or judgment]!
      Or, interpreted broadly in more natural English:
      People make such mistakes! Or: Such misunderstanding!
      (In this section of the poem, an enemy is mistakenly admitted into a house at night.)
  5. solecism

Third-declension noun.

error

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of errō

Learned borrowing from Latin error.[1] First attested in 1595.[2]

error m inan

  1. (obsolete) error, mistake
    Synonyms: błąd, pomyłka
  1. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “error”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “error”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Borrowed from Latin errōrem.

error m (plural errores)

  1. error
    Synonyms: equivocación, yerro

Orthographic borrowing from English error.

error (definite accusative erroru, plural errorlar)

  1. (computing) error message
    error vermek ― to give an error message