err
Latinwander, stray, go astray (→ make a mistake)
Variants:errerraterrant
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From Latin errāre, 'to wander, lose one's way.' Romans saw a mistake as literally straying off the correct path, so the physical idea of wandering became the moral idea of being wrong: error, err, erroneous. The wandering image survives most clearly in erratic ('moving unpredictably') and aberration ('a straying away from normal').
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error
A mistake or inaccuracy; to malfunction due to a fault
erratic
Unpredictable and inconsistent; deviating from normal behavior
aberration
A deviation from what is normal; a mental lapse; an optical defect
erroneous
Containing an error; incorrect or mistaken
err
To make a mistake or act incorrectly
erratically
In an unpredictable or inconsistent manner
aberrant
Deviating from what is normal or expected