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Old Spanish
Etymology
Deverbal from errar (“to err”).
Pronunciation
Noun
yerro m (plural yerros)
- error, blunder, transgression
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 11v:[…] E dixo aſſi dizredes aioſep. Priegot q̃ perdones el ẏerro atos ermanos. e ſo peccado del mal quet fizierõ. Agora perdona a ſieruos del dios de to padre.- “ and he said thus, ‘You shall say to Joseph: I beg you forgive the transgression of your brothers, and their sin of the wrong they did to you.’ Now, forgive the servants of the God of your father.”
Descendants
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝero/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃero/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒero/
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish yerro. Deverbal from errar.
Noun
yerro m (plural yerros)
- error, blunder
- Synonym: error
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
yerro
- first-person singular present indicative of errar
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