erratum means A published notice reporting an error belatedly discovered in a previous publication. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 76 out of 100.
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ERRATUM — [Noun] A published notice of an error discovered after a work has been printed. From the Latin erratum, neuter past participle of errāre ("to wander, to err"). Unlike a corrigendum, which implies a binding duty of correction, or a typo, which suggests a trivial mechanical slip, an erratum is a formal, dispassionate statement of a mistake now irrevocably set in type. It is the crisp slip of paper tucked into a heavy atlas, the apologetic asterisk at the foot of a map's legend, the faint ghost of a misprinted date lingering beneath its inked correction—a quiet monument to the dignified archaeology of human fallibility, where even fixed thoughts, once set in ink, must eventually wander from the truth.
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- 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.”
- An error, especially one in a printed work.“Erratum / The correct ISBN for this book is […]”