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English
Etymology
From Latin lāpsus calamī (literally “slip of the pen”), from calamus (“pen”).
Noun
lapsus calami (plural lapsus calami)
- (formal) Synonym of slip of the pen.
- Synonym: lapsus plumæ
- Coordinate terms: lapsus digiti, lapsus digitorum; lapsus linguae, slip of the tongue, speako
- Near-synonyms: writo; miswriting; misprint; typo
1995, Annals, volume 28, page 5, column 2:Unfortunately, there are two lapsus calami, which I missed in my review of the proof. They are as follows:
• third paragraph, last line: the word “proximal” should be “proximate”
• fourth paragraph, fourth last line: the word “ancestor” should be “ancestry”
• in the same paragraph, the clause “The Eucarya share a common ancestry with Archaea, independently of Bacteria,” should be separately referenced with 6a.
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