Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. formal An inadvertent remark; slip of the tongue.
Etymologies
- From Latin lapsus linguae, literally a slip or fault of the tongue, from lapsus ‘fault’ and linguae (the genitive form of lingua) ‘tongue’. (Wiktionary)
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘lapsus linguae’.
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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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SCRUBJAYS IDIOM
EXTRAPOLATE, altruistic, misanthropic, predicate, pejoritive, disparaging, bucolic, sylvan, veracity, autodidact, jejune, erudite and 110 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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L
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...
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latinate
words/phrases/sayings from latin
in medias res, sine qua non, tempus fugit, ne plus ultra, mea culpa, a priori, actus reus, mens rea, vidi aquam, alea iacta est, annus mirabilis, annus horribilis and 67 more...
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Lissome Latin
apologia, sine qua non, prandial, desiderata, errata, dixi, viz, in flagrante delicto, ad nauseam, ad infinitum, aqua vitae, de profundus and 33 more...
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