MISTAKE Copy link • MISTAKE 1. s. error: mendum: peccatum: vitium: delictum: [SYN. in BLUNDER, which see.] To commit a mistake in anything, errare aliqua re, or in aliqua; with accusative of neuter pronoun, hoc, id, illud, quid. To make a mistake on purpose, consiho labi. To make a mistake (= fault in writing, etc.), peccare, delinquere (Quint.). To correct a mistake, errorem, peccatum corrigere: to remove mistakes, menda tollere. To make or commit the same mistake, idem peccare; one mistake after another, aliud ex alio peccare. Misunderstanding of an author’s or speaker’s meaning, *interpretatio perversa or perperam facta. 2. v. TRANS., To misunderstand, non recte intelligere: perverse or perperam interpretari (to put a perverse or wrong interpretation on): aliter accipere, ac dictum est (to mistake a person’s meaning: not to take it in the sense intended, sinistre accipere, Tac.). To mistake anything on purpose, aliquid fallaciter interpretari: aliquid calumniari: to mistake anything in a ridiculous way, ridicule interpretari aliquid (Cic. followed by quasi with subjunctive). INTRANS., To be mistaken, errare, in anything, aliqua re orin aliqua re: but with accusative of neuter pronoun, id, illud, hoc, quid: per errorem labi: labi (to slip): in errore versari: errore captum esse: falli (to be deceived): peccare (to commit a fault from mistake). To be quite mistaken, egregiously mistaken, valde or vehementer (not egregie) errare: tota re errare or falli: tota via errare (Ter.: ☞ toto caelo errare is late, Krebs advises that it should never be used without a quod aiunt): longe or procul errare (in comedy; also, probe or diligenter errare). Unless I am greatly mistaken, nisi me fallo: nisi me fallit (sc. animus): nisi fallor: nisi (me) omnia fallunt (all Cic.: ☞ nisi erro is not found: ni fallor, poetical). To be mistaken in this single point, in hoc uno errare. I think I shall not be mistaken, haud, ut opinor, erravero.