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French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin errōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
erreur f (plural erreurs)
- error (a faulty process of thought that leads to conclusions out of agreement with reality)
- Near-synonyms: méprise (“misunderstanding”); mauvaise évaluation
faire une erreur, commettre une erreur- to make an error, to commit an error
être sujet à l’erreur- to be error-prone
- error (the resulting thought, conception, assumption, belief, determination, etc., of a flawed thought process)
- error (the condition of one who has made and maintains such incorrect conclusions)
- être dans l’erreur ― to be mistaken, to be in error
- tomber dans l’erreur ― to fall into error
- mistake (an action taken in such condition of faulty belief)
- Synonyms: faute, bévue, gaffe
- (computing) error (a failure, misfunction)
- Near-synonyms: défaillance, dysfonctionnement
- Une erreur système s’est produite pendant l’enregistrement des données. ― A system error occurred while the data was being saved (lit. during the saving of the data).
- error (the condition of something that is not representative of reality)
- Synonyms: faute, inexactitude
la marge d’erreur — une marge d’erreur importante- the margin of error — a wide/significant/considerable margin of error
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Middle French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin error.
Noun
erreur f (plural erreurs)
- error; mistake