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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=la errō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ɔˈbɛr.roː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [oˈbɛr.ro]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''oberrō''' (present infinitive oberrāre, perfect active oberrāvī, supine oberrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|ob-|errō|t2=to wander]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Horace says a lyre-player who always goes wrong on the same string is laughed at.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is to wander about a place, rove or ramble, often aimlessly: Tacitus has men wander round the tents, Curtius in unknown places, and Pliny the Elder the weasel that roams our houses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The elder Seneca speaks of half-dead herds wandering, and Seneca of air still hovering underground.^(OLD 2012) It is also to get in someone's way, as in Seneca's ''Phaedra''.^(OLD 2012) With ''oculīs'' or ''mentī'' it is to hover before the eyes or mind: Curtius has the image of a great danger before someone's eyes.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Younger and later authors have shortened perfect forms such as ''oberrāsse''.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it wander about.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a lyre-player going wrong.^(OLD 2012)
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of hovering air.^(OLD 2012)
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of the weasel in houses.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of wandering round tents.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|wander]] about, rove, ramble; to hover.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # To get in the way.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To hover before the eyes or mind.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To go wrong, [[m|en|err]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[erro|alt=errō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}