aberro Latin · revision 32441

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁ers-o/h₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈbɛr.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈbɛr.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aberrō''' (present infinitive aberrāre, perfect active aberrāvī, supine aberrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|errō|t1=away|t2=to wander]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|errō]] to [[itc-pro|*ers-āje-]], a denominal verb "to be restless", and [[ine-pro|*h₁ers-o/h₂-|t=erring, error]], perhaps from the root *h₁ers- "to flow"; he compares [[goh|irren|t=to be mistaken; lead astray]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first: in the prologue of the ''Menaechmi'' a boy strays from his father in a crowd.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to wander away or get lost: Livy uses it of a bull that had strayed from the herd and of ships leaving their formation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to digress, as when Cicero says that his mind wanders from the point, worried by greater cares, and to miss one's aim or depart from a standard.^(OLD 2012) From this it means to go wrong or be mistaken: Cicero fears that his guess is wrong.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also uses it of forgetting grief for a while: writing all day brings him no relief, but it takes his mind off it.^(OLD 2012) Seneca says that one cannot get away from one's own fortune.^(OLD 2012) It survives in [[sc|aerrare]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a boy lost in a crowd.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of digressing, of being mistaken and of forgetting grief.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a stray bull and of ships.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1798 – English [[m|en|aberrant]] is formed from its present participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|wander]] away, [[m|en|stray]], get lost.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To wander from one's subject, [[m|en|digress]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To stray from one's purpose; to depart or differ from a standard; to disagree.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To go wrong, be mistaken, [[m|en|err]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To get away from something; to take one's mind off grief.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[aberrātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[deerrō]]

+ * [[errō]]

+ * [[oberrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}