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Unadapted borrowing from Latin lāpsus oculī (literally “slip of the eye”), from lāpsus (“slipping; (figurative, rare) error”) + oculī (genitive of oculus (“eye”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
lapsus oculi
lap·sus oc·u·liToday it means: An error that results from looking in the wrong place, especially one that occurs while copying or translating a body of text. Full definition →