lapsus plumæ

Etymology
First attested in 1844; : (“a slipping”; in the plural, “slippings”, the nominative plural form of ) +  (“of the feather or plume”, the genitive singular form of , “feather”, “plume”) = “a slipping of the feather” ≈ “a lapse of the plume” ≈ “a slip of the quill”; compare  and the 🇨🇬-coined 🇨🇬 phrase.

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * 1) An error made in writing.
 * 2) * 1844, Suum Cuique [pseud.: Joseph Hewlett], “The Nice Young Man” in Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany I, page 552
 * When he came to a word like believe, he was cunning enough to write two ees, and put a dot just over the middle of them, leaving the reader to imagine that his error was the result of a mere lapsus plumæ.
 * 1) * 1844, Suum Cuique [pseud.: Joseph Hewlett], “The Nice Young Man” in Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany I, page 552
 * When he came to a word like believe, he was cunning enough to write two ees, and put a dot just over the middle of them, leaving the reader to imagine that his error was the result of a mere lapsus plumæ.