English
Etymology
Calque of Latin lapsus linguae.
Pronunciation
Noun
slip of the tongue (plural slips of the tongue)
- (idiomatic) A mistake in speech.
- Synonyms: lapsus linguae; misspeaking, misspeech; speako
- Coordinate terms: slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ; writo; typo; misprint
It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and he did not intend it that way.
Translations
mistake in speech
- Arabic: (please verify) فَلْتَة لِسَانٍ (falta(t) lisānin), (please verify) هَفْوَة لِسَانٍ (hafwa(t) lisānin), (please verify) زَلَّة (zalla)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: абмо́ўка f (abmóŭka), агаво́рка f (ahavórka)
- Bulgarian: грешка на езика (greška na ezika)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 口誤 / 口误 (kǒuwù), 失言 (zh) (shīyán), 漏嘴 (lòuzuǐ)
- Czech: přeřeknutí n
- Dutch: verspreking (nl) f
- Esperanto: langeraro
- Estonian: keelevääratus
- Finnish: lipsahdus (fi), lapsus (fi)
- French: lapsus (fr) m
- German: Versprecher (de) m
- Greek: παραδρομή της γλώσσας f (paradromí tis glóssas), παραπραξία f (parapraxía)
- Hungarian: elszólás (hu), nyelvbotlás (hu)
- Icelandic: mismæli (is) n
- Ido: eroreto (io)
- Italian: lapsus (it) m, papera (it) f, strafalcione (it) m
- Japanese: 舌禍 (ja) (ぜっか, zekka), 言い損ない (いいそこない, iisokonai), 失言 (ja) (しつげん, shitsugen), 言い違い (いいちがい, iichigai)
- Korean: 말실수 (malsilsu)
- Latin: lāpsus linguae
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: хэл хальтирах (xel xalʹtirax)
- Polish: przejęzyczenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: lapso (pt) m
- Russian: огово́рка (ru) f (ogovórka), обмо́лвка (ru) f (obmólvka)
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: prerieknutie n
- Spanish: lapsus linguae (es) m, lapsus (es) m
- Swedish: felsägning (sv) c
- Telugu: నోరుజారు (nōrujāru)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: dil sürçmesi (tr), sürçülisan (tr)
- Ukrainian: обмо́вка f (obmóvka)
- Vietnamese: (phép) nói nhịu, (phép) nói lịu
- Volapük: pök linega
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