lapsus plumæ
See also: lapsus plumae
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
First attested in 1844; (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin: lāpsus (“a slipping”; in the plural lāpsūs, “slippings”, the nominative plural form of lāpsus) + plūmae (“of the feather or plume”, the genitive singular form of plūma, “feather”, “plume”) = “a slipping of the feather” ≈ “a lapse of the plume” ≈ “a slip of the quill”; compare lapsus linguae and the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English-coined (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French phrase nom de plume.
Pronunciation
- singular
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: lăp'səs.plo͞oʹmē, IPA(key): /ˌlæpsəsˈpluːmiː/
- plural
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: lăp'so͞os.plo͞oʹmē, IPA(key): /ˌlæpsuːsˈpluːmiː/
Noun
lapsus plumæ (plural lapsus plumæ)
- An error made in writing.
- Synonyms: lapsus calami, typo
- Coordinate term: lapsus linguae
- 1844, Suum Cuique [pseud.: Joseph Hewlett], “The Nice Young Man” in Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany I, page 552
- When he came to a word like believe, he was cunning enough to write two ees, and put a dot just over the middle of them, leaving the reader to imagine that his error was the result of a mere lapsus plumæ.