lapsūs linguae

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Definition of lapsūs linguae in English Turkish dictionary

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lapsus linguae

dil sürçmesi

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Definition of lapsūs linguae in English English dictionary

plural form of lapsus linguae

Any model of this process which considers the phonemic segment as the basic “spark” or “queach” (ie, speech quark) cannot account for the kinds of lapsūs linguae which occur.

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lapsus linguae

An inadvertent remark; slip of the tongue

As he said this, you can imagine our surprise; we thought the man must be out of his head, or that it was a lapsus linguae: yet the strength of his convictions caused us to persist in our first opinion. ”.

Hyphenation

lap·sus linguae

Etymology

() From Latin lapsūs (“slips”) (nominative plural form of lapsus (“slipping”)) + linguae (“of a/the tongue”) (genitive singular form of lingua (“tongue”)) ≅ “slips of the tongue”.