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発音

• IPA: /ˈlæpsəs/

名詞

lapsus (plural lapsus)

1. A slip, lapse, or error.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:error

関連する語

Further reading

• “lapsus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Alsups

語源 1

From lābor (“to slip”) + -tus (forming action noun).

名詞

lāpsus m (genitive lāpsūs); fourth declension

1. gliding, sliding, slipping, falling
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.225–226:

     “At geminī lāpsū dēlūbra ad summa dracōnēs / effugiunt [...].”

     “But the two serpents escape by gliding [off] to the highest temples [of Troy…].”
     [An escape “with a smooth motion”; translated above as if it were a participle.]

2. (transferred sense) fluid motion in a path, circuit, or course
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.524:

     [...,] cum mediō volvuntur sīdera lāpsū, / [...].

     […,] when the stars are turning in their midnight course, [...].

3. (transferred sense, in the plural) of the effects of a fall
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 22.43
4. (figuratively, rare but Classical) a failing, error, fault

   Synonym: sphalma (New Latin)

   • c. 203 BCE, Plautus, Cistellaria 2.1.11
   • 45 BCE, Cicero, Academica 1.12.45
   • 55 BCE, Cicero, De oratore 2.83.339
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 5.12

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

派生した語

語源 2

Perfect active participle of lābor (“to slip, glide”).

Participle

lāpsus (feminine lāpsa, neuter lāpsum); first/second-declension participle

1. having slipped, glided, fallen

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生した語

• Italian: lasso
• → French: laps
• → English: lapse

参照

• “lapsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lapsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lapsus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • he has made several mistakes: saepe (crebro, multa) peccavit, erravit, lapsus est
    
• lapsus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016