different between digress vs err

English

Etymology

From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: di?gress
• IPA^(key): /da?????s/, /d?????s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

digress (third-person singular simple present digresses, present participle digressing, simple past and past participle digressed)

1. (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

   • Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.

   • In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
2. (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Act 5 Scene 3

     Thy overflow of good converts to bad;
     And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
     This deadly blot in thy digressing son.

Usage notes

Often heard in the set phrase But I digress, where the word behaves as a stative verb, whereas it otherwise patterns as a dynamic verb.

Synonyms

• (turn from the course of argument): sidetrack

Related terms

• digression
• digressive
• excursive

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin err? (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??(?)/, (rare) /??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??/, /?/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)

Verb

err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

1. (intransitive) To make a mistake.

   • Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.

2. (intransitive) To sin.
3. (archaic) to stray.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:make a mistake

Derived terms

Translations

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aur?ra, Lithuanian aušrà).

Noun

err m

1. dark, darkness

Synonyms

• terr

Derived terms

• irë

Estonian

Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Faroese

Noun

err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?]
• Hyphenation: err
• Rhymes: -?r?

Noun

err

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bet?; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ?, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ?, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

Further reading

• r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?/

  Rhymes: -?r?

Noun

err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

Võro

Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.