SLIP Copy link • SLIP 1. s. A false step, PROP., vestigii lapsus. To make a slip, vestigio falli: to make a slip and fall, vestigio fallente cadere. ImPROP., lapsus (departure from what is right): error (a mistake): peccatum (an offence): to make a slip, labi; peccare: “there’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip,” iuter os et offam (sc. multa intervenire possunt; a proverb of Cato’s, Gell., 13, 17); multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra (a translation of πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου; Vid: Facciol., in ANaeUS): a slip of the memory, offensatio memoriae (labentis); or by circumlocution with memoria labi (e.g., to do anything from a slip of the memory, memoria lapsum facere aliquid, or perperam edere aliquid). A branch set in the ground, surculus. A long thin board, etc., *pala. A noose, Vid: PHR., To give the slip, excidere: elabi. (The words are found in this connection and order.) excidere atque elabi. 2. v. Intransitively, vestigio falli: vestigio fallente cadere (when one slips and falls). My foot slips, me instabilis gradus fallit (Curt., 7, 11, 16); vestigium fallit (Plin., Ep., 2, 1, 5): one’s foot slips on the ice, glacies vestigium non recipit (Liv., 21, 36): to slip on the sleep rocks, praerupta saxa vestigium fallunt (Curt., 4, 9, 18); se subducere (as earth slips): to let an opportunity slip, occasionem amittere (Terentianus), omittere (Cic.): to slip out, excidere; elabi (both PROP. and figuratively). (The words are found in this connection and order.) excidere atque elabi: a thing slips out of my hands, aliquid de manibus excidit, delabitur, fluit; aliquid mihi excidit atque elabitur: a word slips out from me, verbum (or vox) excidit or elabitur (ex ore): a thing slips from my memory, excidit or effluit aliquid ex animo; elabitur aliquid memoria; exit res memoria: the name has slipped from me, nomen perdidi: to slip through or away, perlabi per, etc. (to slip through entirely, etc.); elabi (to give the slip; with custodiae, of a prisoner); evadere (to escape); se subducere, subtrahere, surripere (to get out of the way quickly and imperceptibly). Transitively, To slip a knot, nodum solvere, expedire.