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lapsus memoriae

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From Latin lāpsus memoriae (literally “slip of the memory”).

noun lapsus memoriae

  1. formal, uncommon A slip of memory; an instance of forgetting. ¹²⁰ On account of the mistake made in line 3 in the reference to the boar (Aetolicus instead of Erymanthius). Prescott (art. cit. (1932), p. 113, n. 7) and Tierney (art. cit., pp. 28f.), however, have both pointed out that similar lapsus memoriae are to be found among Greek Comic writers and therefo

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@misc{lapsus_memoriae_2026,
  title = {lapsus memoriae},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lapsus%20memoriae},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}