English → Latin
“blunder” in Latin
mendadefect, blemish (on the body); mistake, error, blundererrōto wander, rove, stray, roam; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth, to mistakepeccōto sin, transgress, commit a wrongdoing; to mess updēlinquōto fail in one's duty; to be wanting, lacking; to commit a fault, do something wrong; transgress, offend, errvitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, faultmendōsusfull of faults; faulty, erroneous, incorrect; false, deceptivesequorto follow, to come or go after, to pursue; to accede or conform to, follow, comply with; to attend, accompanylāborto slip, slide, glide; (of fluids) to flow gently; to fall, sink down; to slip, stumble
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
blunder s.
mendum (offence against a rule to be observed, a proper form, etc., especially mistakes in writing, calculations, etc.): error, erratum (mistake made from ignorance or inadvertency; of a workman, erratum fabrile (Cic.): erratum, opposed to recte factum and, as a quality, vitium. Also, of offences against propriety of speech, e.g., error. Quint., 1, 5, 47): peccatum, delictum (any sin or error; also of faults in language; e.g., Cic., paucis verbis tria magna peccata): vitium (any blemish or imperfection; figuratively, of barbarisms and solecisms, Quint., 1, 5, 5, sequens and the followings). To remove a blunder, mendum tollere (e.g., librariorum menda toilere, Cic.). To correct a blunder, mendum, errorem or peccatum corrigere. In saying idus Martii, you have made a great blunder, idus Martii magnum mendum continent (it should be idus Martiae). To comit the same blunder, idem peccare: one blunder after another, aliud ex alio peccare. To fall into an opposite blunder, in contrarium vitium converti.
Full of blunders, mendosus. Free from blunders, emendatus (freed from fault; of writings): emendate descriptus (copied out accurately; printed accurately).
blunder
stumble, pedem offendere: vestigio falli (slip, make a false step): labi (slip down).
Commit a blunder, aliquid offendere (blunder against anything; not to act as one ought): labi (make a false step): peccare (sin, commit a fault, πταίειν). Vid: “commit a blunder,” under BLUNDER, s.
To blunder out anything, inconsultius evectum projicere aliquid (Liv., 35, 31, middle).
To blunder upon anything, in aliquid casu incurrere (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for blunder?
- The usual Latin words for “blunder” are menda, errō, peccō; also dēlinquō, vitium, mendōsus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.