erraticus

Latin

Etymology

From errō +‎ -āticus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /erˈraː.ti.kus/, [ɛrˈräːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /erˈra.ti.kus/, [erˈräːt̪ikus]

Adjective

errāticus (feminine errātica, neuter errāticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. wandering, roving
2. erratic
3. wild

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	errāticus	errātica	errāticum		errāticī	errāticae	errātica
genitive	errāticī	errāticae	errāticī		errāticōrum	errāticārum	errāticōrum
dative	errāticō	errāticae	errāticō		errāticīs
accusative	errāticum	errāticam	errāticum		errāticōs	errāticās	errātica
ablative	errāticō	errāticā	errāticō		errāticīs
vocative	errātice	errātica	errāticum		errāticī	errāticae	errātica

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • Emilian: aradec
  • Lombard: radec
  • Romansch: radi
  • Venetan: radega (obsolete), radego
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: rajo
  • Old French: arage
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: arratge
    • → Aragonese: erage
    • → Old Italian: arraggio
• Derived forms:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *errāticāre
    • Lombard: regar, radegar
    • Old Ligurian: araigar
    • Venetan: radegar
      • → Friulian: radegar
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *errāticīre
    • Romanian: rătăci
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: erràtic
  • → English: erratic
  • → French: erratique
  • → Italian: erratico
  • → Romanian: eratic
  • → Spanish: errático

References

• “erraticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “erraticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• erraticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• erraticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “erraticus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 241
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “erraticus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 222