erratus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of errō (“go astray, err”).

Participle

errātus (feminine errāta, neuter errātum); first/second-declension participle

1. (rare) (having been) wandered over; (having been) wandered astray; (having been) roved about
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.573–574:

     quō feror? inmēnsum est errātās dīcere terrās:
     praeteritus Cererī nūllus in orbe locus.

     Where am I being carried? Immense is [my] task to tell the lands having been wandered over [by her]:
     Not a place in the world went unvisited by Ceres.
     (Demeter or Ceres (mythology) searched everywhere for her daughter Persephone or Proserpina. Note Ovid’s word play with the matching vowel and consonant sounds of errātās and terrās.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	errātus	errāta	errātum		errātī	errātae	errāta
Genitive	errātī	errātae	errātī		errātōrum	errātārum	errātōrum
Dative	errātō		errātō		errātīs
Accusative	errātum	errātam	errātum		errātōs	errātās	errāta
Ablative	errātō	errātā	errātō		errātīs
Vocative	errāte	errāta	errātum		errātī	errātae	errāta

Derived terms

• errātum

References

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