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Etymology
First attested in 1844; Latin: lāpsus (“a slipping”; in the plural lāpsūs, “slippings”, the nominative plural form of lāpsus) + plūmae (“of the feather or plume”, the genitive singular form of plūma, “feather”, “plume”) = “a slipping of the feather” ≈ “a lapse of the plume” ≈ “a slip of the quill”; compare lapsus linguae and the English-coined French phrase nom de plume.
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Noun
lapsus plumæ (plural lapsus plumæ)
- An error made in writing.
- Synonyms: lapsus calami, typo
- Coordinate term: lapsus linguae
- 1844, Suum Cuique , “The Nice Young Man” in Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany I, page 552
- When he came to a word like believe, he was cunning enough to write two ees, and put a dot just over the middle of them, leaving the reader to imagine that his error was the result of a mere lapsus plumæ.