Meanings
plural errata
- A published notice reporting an error belatedly discovered in a previous publication.
When the journal's editors found out about the misreported details, they issued an erratum.
Synonyms: corrigendum
- An error, especially one in a printed work.
Erratum / The correct ISBN for this book is […]
1996, Timon Screech, The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, copyright page
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA published notice reporting an error belatedly discovered in a previous publication.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinerrātum
- Englisherratum
Borrowed from Latin errātum, neuter of errātus (“mistaken”).
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