BLUNDER Copy link • BLUNDER 1. s. mendum (offence against a rule to be observed, a proper form, etc., especially mistakes in writing, calculations, etc.): error, erratum (mistake made from ignorance or inadvertency; of a workman, erratum fabrile (Cic.): erratum, opposed to recte factum and, as a quality, vitium. Also, of offences against propriety of speech, e.g., error. Quint., 1, 5, 47): peccatum, delictum (any sin or error; also of faults in language; e.g., Cic., paucis verbis tria magna peccata): vitium (any blemish or imperfection; figuratively, of barbarisms and solecisms, Quint., 1, 5, 5, sequens and the followings). To remove a blunder, mendum tollere (e.g., librariorum menda toilere, Cic.). To correct a blunder, mendum, errorem or peccatum corrigere. In saying idus Martii, you have made a great blunder, idus Martii magnum mendum continent (it should be idus Martiae). To comit the same blunder, idem peccare: one blunder after another, aliud ex alio peccare. To fall into an opposite blunder, in contrarium vitium converti. Full of blunders, mendosus. Free from blunders, emendatus (freed from fault; of writings): emendate descriptus (copied out accurately; printed accurately). 2. stumble, pedem offendere: vestigio falli (slip, make a false step): labi (slip down). Commit a blunder, aliquid offendere (blunder against anything; not to act as one ought): labi (make a false step): peccare (sin, commit a fault, πταίειν). Vid: “commit a blunder,” under BLUNDER, s. To blunder out anything, inconsultius evectum projicere aliquid (Liv., 35, 31, middle). To blunder upon anything, in aliquid casu incurrere (Cic.).