errabund

English

Etymology

Latin errabundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹəbʌnd/

Adjective

errabund (comparative more errabund, superlative most errabund)

1. Erratic, prone to err.
   • 1835, Robert Southey, “Interchapter XIII. A Peep from behind the Curtain.”, in The Doctor, &c., volume III, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, →OCLC, page 345:

     [Y]ou, with your errabund guesses, veering to all points of the literary compass, amused the many-humoured yet single-minded Pantagruelist, [...]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “errabund”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• unbarred, underbar

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin errabundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.rəˈβun]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.rəˈbunt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.raˈbunt]

Adjective

errabund (feminine errabunda, masculine plural errabunds, feminine plural errabundes)

1. wandering

   Synonym: errant

Further reading

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