aberr

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aberr”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.

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