erreur French · revision 17125

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=late 10th century, Passion de Clermont (error)|origins=la errō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /e.ʁœʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''erreur''' ''f'' (plural erreurs)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''error'' (end of the 10th century), resuffixed as ''erreur'' (12th–13th century); sometimes masculine in the 16th century after Latin.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|error|t=wandering; uncertainty; mistake, illusion, (Christian Latin) heresy]], from its accusative “errōrem”, derived from [[m|la|errō|t=to wander; to err]] (see [[errer]]).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|3, 241a)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Compare [[pro|error]], [[es|error]] and [[it|errore]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the ''Passion'' of Clermont (end of the 10th century) ''error'' means deceit, imposture.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ About 1125 it meant the act of being mistaken, the source of ''faire erreur'', ''par erreur'', ''sauf erreur''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) About 1200 it meant a regrettable act and, from Christian Latin, a false doctrine (''maistres d'error''); Bersuire (about 1355) has ''humaines erreurs'', moral lapses.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) It is a legal term from 1549 (''erreur judiciaire'') and means an inaccuracy from 1585 (''erreur de calcul'').^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ From the 14th century, in a lofty style, it also took the Latin sense of wandering: Malherbe's ''erreur vagabonde'' and ''les erreurs d'Ulysse'' (Académie, 1694), a use dated already in the 17th century.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989) ''Cherchez l'erreur'', pointing to something illogical, is from the end of the 20th century.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * late 10th century – ''Error'', imposture, ''Passion''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1125 – The act of being mistaken.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1200 – A false doctrine.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1355 – ''Humaines erreurs'', Bersuire.^(TLFi)

+ * 1549 – A legal term, Robert Estienne.^(TLFi)

+ * 1585 – ''Erreur de calcul''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1694 – ''Les erreurs d'Ulysse'', Académie.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|error]], [[m|en|mistake]]: ''faire une erreur'', ''par erreur'', ''sauf erreur'', ''erreur de calcul''.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # The state of being mistaken: ''être dans l'erreur'', ''induire en erreur'', ''l'erreur est humaine''.^(Wiktionary)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ # A false opinion or doctrine.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # A lapse, wrong act: ''erreur de jeunesse''.^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(law)'' ''Erreur judiciaire'': a miscarriage of justice.^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(computing, science)'' An error, a deviation: ''message d'erreur'', ''erreur absolue''.^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(literary, archaic)'' Wandering: ''les erreurs d'Ulysse''.^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[errer]]

+ * [[erroné]]

+ * [[errance]]

+ * [[la|error]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}