erratum

Borrowed from Latin errātum, neuter of errātus (“mistaken”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛˈɹɑːtəm/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɛˈɹɑtəm/, [ɛˈɹɑɾəm]

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• Rhymes: -ɑːtəm

erratum (plural errata)

1. A published notice reporting an error belatedly discovered in a previous publication.

   Synonym: corrigendum

   When the journal's editors found out about the misreported details, they issued an erratum.

2. An error, especially one in a printed work.
   • 1996, Timon Screech, The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, copyright page:

     Erratum / The correct ISBN for this book is […]

In the print-only era, errata as published notices were vital because there was no practical way to recall and fix publications already printed and distributed; the readers needed to be told that, for example, "in the July issue, there was an error on page 42, where X should have been Y." In the digital era, online publications often fix the error, such that, for example, the version of record of a scientific journal article, being an electronic file residing at its DOI, will contain the corrected text that the erratum also reports (so that readers will no longer even encounter the uncorrected version at all).

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erratum m (plural erratums)

1. erratum

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛrˈraː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [erˈraː.t̪um]

errātum

1. accusative supine of errō

errātum

1. inflection of errātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

errātum n (genitive errātī); second declension

1. error, mistake, fault

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• → English: erratum
• → French: erratum
• → Irish: earráid

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