deerro Latin · revision 34172

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la errō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈɛr.roː], [ˈdeːr.roː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''deerrō''' (present infinitive deerrāre, perfect active deerrāvī, supine deerrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ In verse ⟨deer-⟩ is often scanned as one syllable.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ It is also written ''derrō''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|errō|t2=to wander, stray]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan reconstructs the simple verb as [[itc-pro|*ers-āje-]], a denominative verb made to a noun [[ine-pro|*h₁ers-o/h₂-|t=erring, error]], which may be built on a root meaning “to flow”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the OLD record it first in Plautus' Menaechmi, ''inter homines me deerrare a patre'', of getting lost from one's father in a crowd.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero writes of people who had lost their way on a journey,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) and Virgil of a he-goat that had strayed, ''vir gregis ipse caper deerraverat''.^(Georges 1913) Figuratively it is to stray from a course of thought or action: Lucretius says some thinkers have strayed far from the truth,^(Conte 2010) and the Rhetorica ad Herennium uses it of not straying from a subject.^(OLD 2012) Seneca uses it of an archer who misses and of a man who goes wrong.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin it still meant to lose one's way and to be mistaken.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of getting lost in a crowd.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of straying from the truth.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of losing one's way.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil writes of a he-goat that had strayed.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of an archer missing the target.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To wander off, go [[m|en|astray]], lose one's way.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To miss (a target).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To stray from the right course (in thought or action), [[m|en|digress]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To make a [[m|en|mistake]], go wrong.^(OLD 2012)^(MLW)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[errō]]

+ * [[aberrō]]

+ * [[error]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}