aberr
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
aberr (third-person singular simple present aberrs, present participle aberring, simple past and past participle aberred)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go astray; to err. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.][1]
- (transitive, rare) Distort; aberrate. [First attested in the late 19th century.][1]
References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 3:
