errator

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /erˈraː.tor/, [ɛrˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /erˈra.tor/, [erˈräːt̪or]

Etymology 1

errō (“to wander”) +‎ -tor

Noun

errātor m (genitive errātōris); third declension

1. (dis legomenon) wanderer (also used as an epithet of the River Maeander)
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, The Heroines 9.55:

     “Maeandrōs, terrīs totiēns errātor in īsdem”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione 344.34:

     "...<Spa>tiātōrem, errātōrem Catō in M."

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	errātor	errātōrēs
genitive	errātōris	errātōrum
dative	errātōrī	errātōribus
accusative	errātōrem	errātōrēs
ablative	errātōre	errātōribus
vocative	errātor	errātōrēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

errātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of errō

References

• “errator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “errator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "errator", 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)
• errator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Swedish

Noun

errator

1. indefinite plural of errata

Anagrams

• roterar, torrare