err

From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɜː(ɹ)/, (rare) /ɛə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)

err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

1. (intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.
   • 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation‎, page 7:

     Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.

   He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.

2. (intransitive) To sin.
3. (archaic) to stray.

• See also Thesaurus:make a mistake

err

1. Alternative form of er (“sound of hesitation”)

   Err... what did you just say?

From Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos. Cognate with Old Armenian երեկ (erek, “evening”), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, “dimness, darkness, mist”) and Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”).

err m

1. dark, darkness

• terr

• errem
• irë

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrː]
• Hyphenation: err
• Rhymes: -ɛrː

err

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

• (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

• r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ɛrː/

  Rhymes: -ɛrː

err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

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