yerro
Old Spanish
Etymology
Deverbal from errar (“to err”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjero/
Noun
yerro m (plural yerros)
- error, blunder, transgression
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 11v:
- […] E dixo aſſi dizredes aioſep. Priegot q̃ perdones el ẏerro atos ermanos. e ſo peccado del mal quet fizierõ. Agora perdona a ſieruos del dios de to padre.
- “ […] and he said thus, ‘You shall say to Joseph: I beg you forgive the transgression of your brothers, and their sin of the wrong they did to you.’ Now, forgive the servants of the God of your father.”
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝero/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.ro]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃero/ [ˈʃe.ro]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒero/ [ˈʒe.ro]
- Rhymes: -ero
- Syllabification: ye‧rro
- Homophone: hierro
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish yerro. Deverbal from errar.
Descendants
- →? Basque: erru
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- “yerro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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