Pronounced: mal-THOO-zhuhn (alt: mal-THOO-zee-uhn), adj
Notes: I didn’t know this word, and could not guess at a meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word corrigendum is “an error in a printed work discovered after printing and shown with its correction on a separate sheet”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
I have books and instruction manuals in which errors were caught after printing and an “errata” page has been inserted in the printed work. These would be corrigenda (the plural of our word) – but I didn’t know that there was a word for it; I just called in “a page of errors” or “errata”. If you thought that our word may be related to “correct” (I didn’t), you are correct: our word came from the Latin verb corrigere (to correct).
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