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Latin
Etymology
From errō + -āticus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
errāticus (feminine errātica, neuter errāticum); first/second-declension adjective
- wandering, roving
- erratic
- wild
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Derived forms:
- Borrowings:
References
- “erraticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “erraticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "erraticus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- erraticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “erraticus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 241
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “erraticus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 222