lapsus memoriae

English

Etymology

From Latin lāpsus memoriae (literally “slip of the memory”).

Noun

lapsus memoriae (plural lapsus memoriae)

1. (formal, uncommon) A slip of memory; an instance of forgetting.
   • 1980, Netta Zagagi, Tradition and Originality in Plautus: Studies of the Amatory Motifs in Plautine Comedy, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 55:

     ¹²⁰ On account of the mistake made in line 3 in the reference to the boar (Aetolicus instead of Erymanthius). Prescott (art. cit. (1932), p. 113, n. 7) and Tierney (art. cit., pp. 28f.), however, have both pointed out that similar lapsus memoriae are to be found among Greek Comic writers and therefore, passages containing such mistakes need not inevitably be attributed to the Roman adapter.

See also

• lapsus calami
• lapsus linguae