different between aberrant vs aberrate

English

Etymology

From Latin aberr?ns, present active participle of aberr? (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + err? (“to wander”). See aberr.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?.?b?.??nt/, /?æ.b?.??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?.?b?.??nt/, /?æ.b?.??nt/

Adjective

aberrant (comparative more aberrant, superlative most aberrant)

1. Differing from the norm. [First attested sometime between the mid 16^th century and the early 17^th century.]
2. (sometimes figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]
3. (botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]

Synonyms

• (differing from the norm): abnormal, exceptional, unusual; see also Thesaurus:strange
• (straying from the right way): devious, errant, immoral; see also Thesaurus:immoral
• (deviating from the natural type):

Antonyms

• (differing from the norm): normal, regular, true; see also Thesaurus:normal
• (straying from the right way): correct, right, straight; see also Thesaurus:virtuous
• (deviating from the natural type): continuous

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

aberrant (plural aberrants)

1. A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
2. (biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.

Synonyms

• (thing deviating from the group): deviant, freak; see also Thesaurus:anomaly
• (thing deviating from the natural type):

Translations

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin aberr?ns, present active participle of aberr? (“go astray; err”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.b??rant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.b??ran/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.be?rant/

Adjective

aberrant (masculine and feminine plural aberrants)

1. aberrant
2. (pathology) aberrant (indicating an organ or other tissue which is not in its expected location)

Related terms

• aberració
• aberrància

Further reading

• “aberrant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin aberrant-, stem of aberr?ns, present active participle of aberr? (“go astray; err”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.b?.???/

Adjective

aberrant (feminine singular aberrante, masculine plural aberrants, feminine plural aberrantes)

1. aberrant, abnormal or anomalous
2. (sciences) which is impossible according to the norms or rules

Related terms

• aberrer

Further reading

• “aberrant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Latin aberr?ns, present active participle of aberr? (“go astray; err”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

aberrant (comparative aberranter, superlative am aberrantesten)

1. aberrant

Declension

Further reading

• “aberrant” in Duden online

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?ber.rant/, [ä?b?r?än?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?ber.rant/, [??b?r??n?t?]

Verb

aberrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of aberr?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin aberr?ns (“wandering, straying or deviating from”), present active participle of aberr? (“I wander, stray; aberr”), from both ab- (“from, away from”), from ab (“from, away from, of”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h?epó (“off, away”) + and from err? (“I wander, astray; err”), from Proto-Italic *erz?? (“to roam, wander; go astray, waver”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ers-eh?-yé-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ers- (“to flow”). Doublet of aberrasjon.

The noun is a substantivisation of the adjective, with the same etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab??rant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Hyphenation: ab?err?ant

Adjective

aberrant (neuter singular aberrant, definite singular and plural aberrante, comparative mer aberrant, superlative mest aberrant)

1. (especially medicine) aberrant (deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal)

Noun

aberrant m (definite singular aberranten, indefinite plural aberranter, definite plural aberrantene)

1. (botany, zoology) an aberrant (a group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number)

References

• “aberrant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “aberrant” in Store norske leksikon

English

Etymology

From Latin aberr?tus, perfect passive participle of aberr? (“wander, stray or deviate from”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + err? (“stray”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.?.?e?t/

Verb

aberrate (third-person singular simple present aberrates, present participle aberrating, simple past and past participle aberrated)

1. (intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. [mid 18th century]
   • 1765, Peter Dollond, letter to James Short dated 7 February, 1765, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55,^[1]

     […] the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis […]

   • 1812, John Brady, Clavis Calendaria, London, for the author, Volume I, p. 229,^[2]

     Such, indeed, were the primitive regulations of the greater number of monastic institutions; but the abominable and luxurious indulgences into which they afterwards aberrated, the page of history amply unfolds.

   • 1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Lake Reminiscences: No. V, Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge” originally published in Tait’s Magazine, August 1839, in David Masson (editor), The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, London: A. & C. Black, 1896, Volume 2, Chapter 5, pp. 340-341,^[3]

     […] the barriers, which to them limit the view, and give to it, together with the contraction, all the distinctness and definite outline of limitation, are, in nine cases out of ten, the product of their own defective and aberrating vision, and not real barriers at all.

   • 1951, William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, New York: Vintage, 1975, Act Two, Scene 2, pp. 173-174,^[4]

     […] after all the Governor of a Southern state has got to try to act like he regrets having to aberrate from being a gentleman—

2. (transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of. [late 19th century]
   • 1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104,^[5]

     He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action.

   • 1918, Theodore Dreiser, “The Lost Phœbe” in Free and Other Stories, New York: Boni and Liveright, p. 122,^[6]

     He and Phœbe had had a senseless quarrel […] and she had left. It was an aberrated fulfillment of her old jesting threat that if he did not behave himself she would leave him.

   • 1934, Archibald Belaney, Pilgrims of the Wild, London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, 1935, Chapter 1,^[7]

     Don’t imagine that there was any sudden and complete renunciation such as overcomes the luckless and often temporarily aberrated victim of a highly emotionalized revival meeting; this would have been, at best, but temporary.

   • 1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in Time, 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”)^[8] and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,^[9]

     […] sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.

   • 2014, James Adams, “Group of who? A new book paints the fullest picture yet of Canada’s vision of Impressionism,” The Globe and Mail, 5 December, 2014,^[10]

     As these monographs and as these occasional exhibition catalogues on some handful of Canadian Impressionists started to appear, once again, I was surprised (to say it with the utmost respect) that they were aberrated, there was no timeline, there was no continuity.

Usage notes

• The transitive sense is chiefly used in the past participle form (as aberrated).

Related terms

• aberr
• aberrance
• aberrant
• aberration

Translations

References

Italian

Verb

aberrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of aberrare
2. second-person plural imperative of aberrare
3. feminine plural of aberrato

Latin

Verb

aberr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of aberr?