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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin lāpsus oculī (literally “slip of the eye”), from lāpsus (“slipping; (figurative, rare) error”) + oculī (genitive of oculus (“eye”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
lapsus oculi (plural lapsus oculi)
- (formal, rare) An error that results from looking in the wrong place, especially one that occurs while copying or translating a body of text.
- Hyponym: misreading
1828, “Dialogue II. The Convex Lens.”, in Optics, on the Principle of Images, without Material Light, Rays and Refraction. , London: ">…] for Longman, Rees and Co.; Manchester: Everett, →OCLC, page 38:Oh, a mere lapsus oculi. The Doctor's optics were not quite so sound, as he imagined.
1896, Theodore Gill, “Note on the Nomenclature of the Pœciloid Fishes”, in Marcus Benjamin, editor, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume XVIII, number 1060, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 226:he name Tetragonopterus was due to a lapsus oculi of Cuvier and never appeared in that form till 1815;
1939, William Heath Robinson, K R G Browne, “Road Sense and Etiquette”, in How to Be a Motorist (Vintage Words of Wisdom; 14), : RHE Media, published 2014, →ISBN:Well, if what he runs into is the comely member, all may turn out for the best, as more than one romance has burgeoned in a Cottage Hospital. If, on the other hand, it is the local reservoir or a passing pantechnicon, he will probably regret his lapsus oculi (I think).
1961, Joseph Perry Ponte, “Introduction”, in Musica Disciplina: A Revised Text, Translation and Commentary, volume 1 (unpublished dissertation), Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University, →OCLC, page xiv:It has been carelessly copied and contains many lapsus oculi: frequently a single word has been omitted, obviously through inattention; occasionally a line or two of the archetype has been skipped, so that completely separate sentences have been fused together; sometimes simple mis-readings occur.
1970, Klearchos: Bollettino dell’Associazione Amici del Museo Nazionale di Reggio Calabria , Naples: L’Arte Tiprografica Napoli, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 100:The straightforward and economical explanation of this mistake is a lapsus oculi on the part of the mason triggered by the structural similarity in his draft of the local freak beta and the mu which immediately followed it.
1998, Norma Bouchard, Veronica Pravadelli, editors, Umberto Eco’s Alternative: The Politics of Culture and the Ambiguities of Interpretation, New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 100:Was it a simple lapsus oculi on the part of the translator, a kind of scribal error that led to an involuntary deletion?
2002, Paul G Remley, “Daniel, the Three Youths Fragment and the Transmission of Old English Verse”, in Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes, editors, Anglo-Saxon England, volume 31, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 125 and 127:These lapses have adversely affected passages of the Daniel–Three Youths texts that once shared more than a dozen lines of verses, lines which now appear to have been lost due to a textual lacuna in one witness or the other. In each case, the lapse at issue arguably involves a textual loss occurring as a result of scribal inattention, specifically the sort of lapsus oculi that will be termed 'eye-skip' in subsequent discussion.
Coordinate terms
Translations
error that results from looking in the wrong place