lapsus auris

English

Etymology

From Latin lāpsus auris (“lapse of the ear”). Compare lapsus linguae, lapsus oculi.

Noun

lapsus auris (plural lapsus auris)

1. (formal, rare) An instance of mishearing, an error in hearing something correctly.
   • 1997, Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak, “Baudouin de Courtenay on Lautgesetze”, in Raymond Hickey, Stanisław Puppel, editors, Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday, volume I (Language History), Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 913:

     Baudouin deems it necessary to exclude from that domain such phenomena as established alternations, sound correspondences in different languages, lapsus linguae and lapsus auris, as well as sound substitutions due to dialect mixture and analogy (including hypercorrection).

See also

• mishearing