lapsus auris
Latin
Etymology
lapsus (“slipping”) + auris (“ear”)
Lapsus auris is the technical term used for the so-called "lapse of the ear" (a common term in certain U.S. states, particularly Wisconsin and Texas). The term originally referred to the simple mishearing of a word on the sufferer's part but has now come to refer to the tendency to mishear things that are relevant to one's own thoughts, much like the commonly used "Freudian slip". The term is first encountered in the works of Nicander of Colophon (2nd cent. B.C.E.), particularly in his Epigrams.