English → Latin
“error” in Latin
errōto wander, rove, stray, roam; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth, to mistakelāborto slip, slide, glide; (of fluids) to flow gently; to fall, sink down; to slip, stumblepeccōto sin, transgress, commit a wrongdoing; to mess upfrauscheating, deceit, deception, fraud, guile, stratagem, trick, treachery, wiles; delusion, error; injury, hurt, harmversōto turn often, keep turning, handle, whirl about, turn over; to treat, manage; to pervert, alter, change
The English word error itself goes back to Latin errō, through error.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
error
error: erratum (the latter, “an error”): lapsus (a slip): peccatum (a blunder committed; also a mistake in grammar, etc.): fraus (an error into which we are led by others; a deceit practised upon us): opinionis error: opinio falsa (an erroneous opinion): To commit an error, errare: peccare: to fall into an (involuntary) error, per errorem labi: to be in error, in errore esse or versari; errore captum esse; errore vagari, or (stronger) in magno errore versari: to acknowledge one’s error, erratum suum agnoscere: to lead anybody into error, aliquem in errorem inducere or conjicere; aliquem in fraudem impellere; aliquem inducere, ut erret (also of things). You see how much of error is at the bottom of all this, vides, quanto haec in errore versentur: it is a great error to believe, etc., in magnis erroribus sunt ii, qui credunt, etc.
Blunder, Vid: An error of the press. [Vid: ERRATUM.] A clerical error, mendum scripturae.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for error?
- The usual Latin words for “error” are errō, lābor, peccō; also fraus, versō. 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.