Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. formal A slip of the pen, a miswriting.
Etymologies
- From Latin lapsus ("lapse") + calami ("of the pen"), genitive of calamus. Literally meaning "slip of the pen". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Nonetheless, your resident Latin censor—dash it all—must have been dozing when he allowed a certain lapsus calami aka “slip of the pen” to pass his watchful eye.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lapsus calami’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Mistakes Were Made
scanno, typo, catachresis, spoonerism, lapsus linguae, lapsus calami, mispronunciation, faux pas, friendly fire, erratum, divorce, mea culpa and 19 more...
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Penmanship
Spencerian method, Palmer method, Platt R. Spencer, cursive, round hand, running hand, handwriting, stylus, pen, vellum, penmanship, script and 86 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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louche, laciniate, lassitude, lenitive, licentious, limpid, lubricious, luftmensch, lumpenproletariat, logolatry, logopoeia, limn and 14 more...
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latin is fun
ab ovo, ignis fatuus, cum laude, ad astra, anno domini, veni, vidi, vici, deus ex machina, cui bono, carpe diem, ad referendum, amicus humani gen..., aqua et igni inte... and 40 more...
Tweets
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mollusque See gladius. Mar 4, 2008
chained_bear "...he brought in the enormous cuttlefish, borne high on a silver charger, cried 'Make a lane, mates,'... and advanced to set it down... But his right foot trod on the pennant's end, his left caught in its substance, and down he came, flooding his captain with melted butter... and flinging the cuttlefish to the deck.
"'That was a lapsus calami indeed,' observed Stephen."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 138 Mar 4, 2008