errar

Borrowed from Latin errāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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errar (first-person singular present erro, first-person singular preterite errí, past participle errat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (intransitive) to roam, to wander
2. (transitive) to do something incorrectly

   Antonym: encertar

• “errar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “errar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “errar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “errar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese errar, from Latin errāre (“to err”).

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• Hyphenation: er‧rar

errar (first-person singular present erro, first-person singular preterite errei, past participle errado)

1. (intransitive) to err (make a mistake)

   Synonyms: enganar-se, equivocar-se

   Antonym: acertar

   Errei quando mudei de emprego. ― I made a mistake when I changed my job.

   Errei no cálculo. ― I erred in the calculation.

2. (transitive) to miss (fail to hit)

   Antonyms: acertar, atingir

   A bala errou o alvo. ― The bullet missed the target.

3. (transitive) to do something incorrectly

   Antonym: acertar

   Se errares o passo, cairás. ― If you miss your step you will fall.

4. (intransitive) to roam (wander or travel freely and with no specific destination)

   Synonyms: perambular, vagar, vaguear

• me erra

From Latin errāre. Related to English and Spanish error.

• IPA^(key): /eˈraɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: e‧rrar
• Homophone: herrar

errar (first-person singular present (Spain) yerro or (Latin America) erro, first-person singular preterite erré, past participle errado)

1. (transitive) to miss
2. (transitive, poetic) to be wrong, to err

   Synonyms: equivocarse, marrar

3. (intransitive, poetic) to wander around, roam

   Synonyms: divagar, vagar

• “errar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10