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erratum|ɛˈreɪtəm, -ˈrɑː-|
Pl. errata.
[a. L. errātum, neut. pa. pple. of errāre: see err.]
1. An error in writing or printing; chiefly, an error noted in a list of corrections attached to a printed book.
1589Marprel. Epit. G b, Errata, or faults escaped. 1632Quarles Div. Fancies iv. xxxv. (1660) 151 The World's a Book..'Tis falsly printed, though divinely penn'd, And all th' Errata will appear at th' end. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 247 God..upon a Solemn Review of his Works..found not one Erratum in the whole Book of Nature. 1714Spect. No. 579 ⁋1 The Company of Stationers..made a very remarkable Erratum or Blunder in one of their Editions [of the Bible]. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. Pref., The long Catalogue of errata that disfigures this work. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. II. 234 An erratum to a volume. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. vi. 142 The errata are put immediately before the body of the work, or at the end of it. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. p. vii, I have inserted as corrections under the head of errata.
b. transf.
1771Franklin Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 26 This I therefore reckon one of the first errata of my life.
¶2.
a. Like other plurals in -a, errata often appears in 17–18th c. with the addition of -'s or -es without alteration of sense.
b. At the same period, errata occurs as a sing., = ‘list of errata’, and in that sense takes -es in pl.
a.1644Quarles Sheph. Orac. xi, Hee's a page Fill'd with Errata's of the present age. 1678Yng. Man's Call. 53 Look back upon time past..that the former errata's and miscarriages of life may be henceforth corrected. 1727Swift Further Acc. E. Curll, Resolved, That a number of effective errata's be raised out of Pope's Homer.
b.1635T. Lambarde To Rdr. in W. Lambarde's Archeion, Those that..swallow the Errours for Errataes. 1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man become Guilty A. 4 a, I have made an Amends by printing an Errata. 1659Heylin Examen Hist. II. 150 Such Misnomers are so frequent in him, as might make a sufficient Errata at the end of his History. 1663Gerbier Counsel 105 The Errataes at the end of books.
3. attrib. in pl.
a1852Moore Devil among Schol. 35 In whom the dear errata column Is the best page in all the volume! |