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- noun formal A slip of the pen, a
miswriting .
Etymologies
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From Latin lapsus ("lapse") + calami ("of the pen"), genitive of calamus. Literally meaning "slip of the pen".
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chained_bear commented on the word lapsus calami
"...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
March 4, 2008
mollusque commented on the word lapsus calami
See gladius.
March 4, 2008