lapsus

Borrowed from Latin lāpsus. Doublet of lapse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæpsəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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lapsus (plural lapsus)

1. A slip, lapse, or error.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:error

• “lapsus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Alsups

Borrowed from Latin lapsus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈlap.sus]

lapsus m (invariable)

1. lapse

   Synonym: errada

• “lapsus”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “lapsus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “lapsus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “lapsus”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Borrowed from Latin lapsus (“slip”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlapsus]

lapsus m inan

1. (informal) lapse

• “lapsus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lapsus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “lapsus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin lāpsus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑpsus/, [ˈlɑ̝ps̠us̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑpsus
• Syllabification^(key): lap‧sus
• Hyphenation^(key): lap‧sus

lapsus

1. lapsus, slip, lapse, error

• “lapsus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• plussa

Unadapted borrowing from Latin lapsus. Doublet of laps, another borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /lap.sys/

• Audio:

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lapsus m (invariable)

1. lapsus

• lapsus révélateur

• “lapsus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Latin lapsus.

lapsus m

1. (informal) flaw, fault

   Synonym: galli

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlapsus/ [ˈlap̚.sʊs]
• Rhymes: -apsus
• Syllabification: lap‧sus

lapsus (plural lapsus-lapsus)

1. syllabic abbreviation of laporan kasus (“case report”)
2. syllabic abbreviation of laporan khusus (“special report”)

• “lapsus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From lapse- (“child”) +‎ -us. Akin to Finnish lapsuus.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑpsus/, [ˈɫɑps̠ŭz̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑpsus/, [ˈɫɑpʃuʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -ɑpsus
• Hyphenation: lap‧sus

lapsus (uncountable)

1. childhood

Declension of lapsus (type 2/oikehus, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	lapsus	—
genitive	lapsuen	—
partitive	lapsutta	—
illative	lapsuee	—
inessive	lapsuees	—
elative	lapsuest	—
allative	lapsuelle	—
adessive	lapsueel	—
ablative	lapsuelt	—
translative	lapsueks	—
essive	lapsuenna, lapsueen	—
exessive1)	lapsuent	—
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 57
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 249

From Latin lāpsus.

lapsus m (invariable)

1. slip of the tongue

• lapsus freudiano

• lapsus in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫaːp.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlap.sus]

From lābor (“to slip”) + -tus (forming action noun).

lāpsus m (genitive lāpsūs); fourth declension

1. gliding, sliding, slipping, falling
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.225–226:

     “At geminī lāpsū dēlūbra ad summa dracōnēs / effugiunt [...].”

     “But the two serpents escape by gliding [off] to the highest temples [of Troy…].”
     [An escape “with a smooth motion”; translated above as if it were a participle.]

2. (transferred sense) fluid motion in a path, circuit, or course
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.524:

     [...,] cum mediō volvuntur sīdera lāpsū, / [...].

     […,] when the stars are turning in their midnight course, [...].

3. (transferred sense, in the plural) of the effects of a fall
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 22.43
4. (figuratively, rare but Classical) a failing, error, fault

   Synonym: sphalma (New Latin)

   • c. 203 BCE, Plautus, Cistellaria 2.1.11
   • 45 BCE, Cicero, Academica 1.12.45
   • 55 BCE, Cicero, De oratore 2.83.339
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 5.12

Fourth-declension noun.

Perfect active participle of lābor (“to slip, glide”).

lāpsus (feminine lāpsa, neuter lāpsum); first/second-declension participle

1. having slipped, glided, fallen

First/second-declension adjective.

• Italian: lasso
• → French: laps
• → English: lapse

• “lapsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lapsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lapsus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • he has made several mistakes: saepe (crebro, multa) peccavit, erravit, lapsus est
    
• lapsus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From lābor (“to slip”) + -sus (action noun).

lapsus m (genitive lapsī); second declension

1. angel, heavenly being

   Lapsi cælo super nos ― Angels above us in the heavens

Second-declension noun.

Learned borrowing from Latin lāpsus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlap.sus/
• Rhymes: -apsus
• Syllabification: lap‧sus

lapsus m inan

1. lapse, error, slip of the tongue

• “lapsus”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “lapsus”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French lapsus or Latin lapsus.

lapsus n (plural lapsusuri)

1. on the tip of one's tongue
2. slip of the tongue

From Latin lapsus.

làpsus m inan (Cyrillic spelling ла̀псус)

1. lapse

Borrowed from Latin lāpsus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlabsus/ [ˈlaβ̞.sus]
• Rhymes: -absus
• Syllabification: lap‧sus

lapsus m (plural lapsus)

1. lapsus

• “lapsus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025