corrigendum
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prettygoodwordcorrigendum - n., an error to be corrected, esp. a printed error.
In the plural, corrigenda, a list of errors in a book, with their corrections -- a sort of patch for pre-software technology. As such, more or less a direct synonym of erratum/errata. In use since the 1820s, from Latin, the neutral gerund of corrigere, to correct -- so, more or less literally, something to be corrected. Compare also corrigible. Pronounced kaw-ri-JEN-dum.
---L.
In the plural, corrigenda, a list of errors in a book, with their corrections -- a sort of patch for pre-software technology. As such, more or less a direct synonym of erratum/errata. In use since the 1820s, from Latin, the neutral gerund of corrigere, to correct -- so, more or less literally, something to be corrected. Compare also corrigible. Pronounced kaw-ri-JEN-dum.
---L.
