err
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *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
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ɜː(ɹ)/, (rare) /ɛə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
- /ɜː(ɹ)/ Homophone: er
- /ɛə(ɹ)/ Homophones: air, are (unit of measurement), ayr, Ayr, e'er, ere, eyre, heir
Verb
[edit]err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)
- (intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.
- He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.
- 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation[1], 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.
- (intransitive) To sin.
- (archaic) to stray.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:make a mistake
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
[edit]Interjection
[edit]err
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Orel, Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).
Another theory links it to Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos. Cognate with Old Armenian երեկ (erek, “evening”), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, “dimness, darkness, mist”) and Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”).
Noun
[edit]err m
Synonyms
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[edit]Estonian
[edit]Noun
[edit]err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Faroese
[edit]Noun
[edit]err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Declension
[edit]n9 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | err | errið | err | errini |
Accusative | err | errið | err | errini |
Dative | erri | errinum | errum | errunum |
Genitive | ers | ersins | erra | erranna |
See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]err
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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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 |
Possessive forms of err | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | errem | errjeim |
2nd person sing. | erred | errjeid |
3rd person sing. | errje | errjei |
1st person plural | errünk | errjeink |
2nd person plural | erretek | errjeitek |
3rd person plural | errjük | errjeik |
See also
[edit]- (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, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)
Further reading
[edit]- r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Declension
[edit]Declension of err | ||||
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n-s | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | err | errið | err | errin |
accusative | err | errið | err | errin |
dative | erri | errinu | errum | errunum |
genitive | errs | errsins | erra | erranna |
Võro
[edit]Noun
[edit]err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Inflection
[edit]This noun needs an inflection-table template.
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ers-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)/1 syllable
- Rhymes:English/ɛə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɛə(ɹ)/1 syllable
- English terms with homophones
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- Albanian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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- Albanian lemmas
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- Estonian lemmas
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- et:Latin letter names
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- fo:Latin letter names
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛrː
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛrː/1 syllable
- Hungarian lemmas
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- hu:Latin letter names
- Hungarian three-letter words
- Icelandic 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛrː
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- is:Latin letter names
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- vro:Latin letter names