erratum

See also: Erratum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin errātum, neuter of errātus (“mistaken”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛˈɹɑːtəm/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɛˈɹɑtəm/, [ɛˈɹɑɾəm]

  • Audio (Texas):

    (file)

  • Audio (Albany (New York)):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːtəm

Noun

erratum (plural errata)

1. A published notice reporting an error belatedly discovered in a previous publication.

   Synonym: corrigendum

   When the journal's editors found out about the misreported details, they issued an erratum.

2. An error, especially one in a printed work.
   • 1996, Timon Screech, The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, copyright page:

     Erratum / The correct ISBN for this book is […]

Usage notes

• In the print-only era, errata as published notices were vital because there was no practical way to recall and fix publications already printed and distributed; the readers needed to be told that, for example, "in the July issue, there was an error on page 42, where X should have been Y." In the digital era, online publications often fix the error, such that, for example, the version of record of a scientific journal article, being an electronic file residing at its DOI, will contain the corrected text that the erratum also reports (so that readers will no longer even encounter the uncorrected version at all).
• Some academic journals use erratum for a publisher’s error and corrigendum for an author’s error.

Translations

corrigendum — see corrigendum

Anagrams

• maturer

French

Noun

erratum m (plural erratums)

1. erratum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛrˈraː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [erˈraː.tum]

Verb

errātum

1. accusative supine of errō

Participle

errātum

1. inflection of errātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Noun

errātum n (genitive errātī); second declension

1. error, mistake, fault

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	errātum	errāta
genitive	errātī	errātōrum
dative	errātō	errātīs
accusative	errātum	errāta
ablative	errātō	errātīs
vocative	errātum	errāta

Descendants

• → English: erratum
• → French: erratum
• → Irish: earráid

References

• “erratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “erratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “erratum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.