err
to wander, go astray
Latin · errare
Err comes from Latin errare, "to wander". It appears in words about mistakes, straying off the right path, or moving in an unpredictable way.
Memory trick
To ERR is to wander off the path, leaving ERRors behind like footprints.
Words from this root
- aberrant (ab + err + ant) — straying from what is normalअसामान्य, भटका हुआ
- aberration (ab + err + ation) — a departure from the normalविचलन, विसंगति
- err (err) — to make a mistakeगलती करना
- errant (err + ant) — wandering, strayingभटका हुआ
- erratic (err + atic) — unpredictable, irregularअनियमित, अस्थिर
- erratum (err + atum) — a mistake noted in printछपाई की भूल
- erroneous (err + oneous) — wrong, mistakenगलत, भ्रामक
- erroneously (err + oneous + ly) — by mistakeगलती से
- error (err + or) — a mistakeगलती, त्रुटि
- errorless (err + or + less) — without a mistakeत्रुटिहीन
- inerrant (in + err + ant) — free from errorअचूक