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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of errō.
Participle
errāns (genitive errantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- straying, errant, erring
- wandering, wandering about, roving, straying, roaming
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.569–570:
- “ dant clāram incendia lūcem / errantī passimque oculōs per cūncta ferentī.”
- “ the fires gave bright light to my eyes, and by wandering here and there, through all surviving.”
- An ellipsis of stēlla errāns (“wandering star”) (i.e. "planet")
- (figuratively) wandering as an unclear mental state
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.669:
- expedit errantem nemorī grātissima coniūnx
- wife, dearest to the grove, frees wandering.
(Egeria (mythology) explains a dream which King Numa Pompilius cannot understand; idiomatically, Egeria resolves his uncertainty.)
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “errans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- errans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the planets: stellae errantes, vagae
- to direct a person who has lost his way: erranti viam monstrare