inerrant

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English errant

English inerrant

From in- + errant.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɛɹənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

inerrant (not comparable)

1. Exhibiting inerrancy; without error.

   He questions the tenability of regarding the Scriptures as inerrant, since no original copies exist.

Derived terms

• inerrantism
• inerrantist
• inerrantly

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inerrans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [i.nəˈran]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [i.nəˈrant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [i.neˈrant]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [i.neˈran]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Adjective

inerrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural inerrants)

1. inerrant

Related terms

• inerrància

Further reading

• “inerrant”, 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
• “inerrant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “inerrant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “inerrant”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)