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- aberrant (adj.)[aberrant 词源字典]
- 1798, originally in natural history, from Latin aberrantem (nominative aberrans), present participle of aberrare "to wander away, go astray" (see aberration).[aberrant etymology, aberrant origin, 英语词源]
- aberration (n.)
- 1590s, "a wandering, straying," from Latin aberrationem (nominative aberratio) "a wandering," noun of action from past participle stem of aberrare "to wander out of the way, lose the way, go astray," from ab- "away" (see ab-) + errare "to wander" (see err). Meaning "deviation from the normal type" first attested 1846.
- aberrate
- "To go astray; to deviate from a usual course or mode of behaviour", Mid 18th cent.; earliest use found in Benjamin Martin (bap. 1705, d. 1782), lecturer on science and maker of scientific instruments. From classical Latin aberrāt-, past participial stem of aberrāre aberr.