errator

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin errō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin errātor

From errō (“to wander”) + -tor.

Noun

errātor m (genitive errātōris); third declension

1. (dis legomenon) wanderer (also used as an epithet of the River Maeander)
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovidius, Heroides 9.55:

     “Maeandrōs, terrīs totiēns errātor in īsdem”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione 344.34:

     "...<Spa>tiātōrem, errātōrem Catō in M."

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	errātor	errātōrēs
genitive	errātōris	errātōrum
dative	errātōrī	errātōribus
accusative	errātōrem	errātōrēs
ablative	errātōre	errātōribus
vocative	errātor	errātōrēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

errātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of errō

References

• “errator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “errator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "errator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “errator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Swedish

Noun

errator

1. indefinite plural of errata

Anagrams

• roterar, torrare