Definitions for erratum

erratum er·ra·tum

Spelling: [ih-rah-tuh m, ih-rey-, ih-rat- Erratum is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in erratum (aemrrtu).

Definitions for erratum

noun

  1. an error in writing or printing.
  2. a statement of an error and its correction inserted, usually on a separate page or slip of paper, in a book or other publication; corrigendum.

Origin of erratum

1580-90; Latin, noun use of errātum wandered, erred, strayed (neuter past participle of errāre). See err, -ate

Examples for erratum

Thus was the first deleatur of pricking conscience duly heeded by Franklin, the Printer; the first erratum revised.

Page 78: "Ackermann's" has been corrected in accordance with the erratum on page xviii.

In this Project Gutenberg eText the erratum has been applied.

"Wood" in all editions, though designated as an erratum by Pope in his small edition of 1736.

An erratum, ever to be regretted, is certainly quite unexpected, on a gravestone.

Yet all this terrible reproach is only founded on an erratum!

So, for once, M. Michelet has an erratum to enter upon the fly-leaf of his book in presentation copies.

It must be confessed that this was an accident or misfortune—rather than an erratum!

Lully, at the close of a bad prologue said, the word fin du prologue was an erratum, it should have been fi du prologue!

The erratum noted after the list of illustrations has been fixed.

Word Value for erratum
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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