lapsus linguae

English - Turkish

Definition of lapsus linguae in English Turkish dictionary

dil sürçmesi

English - English

Definition of lapsus linguae in English English dictionary

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. ”.

Related Terms

lapsūs linguae

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.

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”.