aberr

English

Etymology

Latin aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈbɜɹ/

Verb

aberr (third-person singular simple present aberrs, present participle aberring, simple past and past participle aberred)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go astray; to err. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.][1]
  2. (transitive, rare) Distort; aberrate. [First attested in the late 19th century.][1]

References

  1. 1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 3

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