aberr

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h2ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h2epó

Proto-Italic *ap

Latin ab der.

Latin ab-

Proto-Indo-European *h1ers-

Proto-Indo-European *-h2

Proto-Indo-European *-éh2

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti

Proto-Indo-European *h1erseh2yéti

Proto-Italic *ersāō?

Latin errō

Latin aberrō bor.

English aberr

Borrowed from Latin aberrō , from ab- ("from, away from") + errō ("wander, stray").

aberr (third-person singular simple present aberrs , present participle aberring , simple past and past participle aberred )

(intransitive , obsolete ) To go astray; to err. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the mid 17^th century.]^[1]
(transitive , rare ) Distort; aberrate. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]^[1]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), "aberr", in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles , 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.