Deerro, deerras, deerrâre. To erre: to go out of the right way: to digresse from a purpose.Itinere deerrare. Quint. Idem. Angiporto toto deerrare. Author ad Heren. Deerrare dicuntur iaculantium ictus. Plin. WhÊ he that shotesh or casteth a dart doth misse the marke.Deerrauit patre puer. Plautus. The childe wandreth from his father, or lost his father. Deerrare. Col. To digresse.Deerrare ab eo quod cœpimus exponere. Author ad Heren. To digresse, or go from.Sors deerrabat ad parum idoneos.Tacit.The lot by ill fortune happened to them that were nothing meete.Sio & sententia & visu deerrasse, vt, &c. Colum. To haue sa erred both in his indgement and sight, that, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dĕ-erro (in the poets dissyllabic, Lucr. 1, 711; Verg. E. 7, 7 al.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. n., to wander away, stray, go astray, go the wrong way, lose one's way (rare, but class.). I.Lit.: deerrare a patre, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 54 (for which aberrare a patre, id. ib. prol. 31): qui in itinere deerravissent, Cic. Ac. Fragm. ap. Lact. 6, 24; for which itinere, Quint. 10, 3, 29: vir gregis ipse caper deerraverat, Verg. E. 7, 7: equi deerantes via, Sen. Hippol. 1070.—b. Of inanimate subjects, Lucr. 3, 873: jaculantium ictus deerraturos negant, Plin. 28, 8, 27, 100: si potus cibusve in alienum deerravit tramitem, id. 11, 37, 66, 176.—II.Trop., to err, stray, deviate: magnopere a vero, Lucr. 1, 712: ab eo quod coeperimus exponere, Auct. Her. 1, 9, 14: verbis, Quint. 12, 10, 64: significatione, id. 1, 5, 46: quia sors deerrabat ad parum idoneos,
fell upon improper persons
, Tac. A. 13, 29.—Pass. impers.: ubi semel recto deerratum est, Vell. 2, 3fin.—Absol.: multos enim deerrasse memoria prodidit, Col. 1, 4, 6; Quint. 11, 2, 32.