astray
English
Etymology
From Middle English astraien or by apheresis straien, from Old French estraier (“to stray”), from late Medieval Latin extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagārī (“to wander, stray”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈstɹeɪ/
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- Rhymes: -eɪ
Adverb
astray
- In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
- 1907, Virgil, “1.X”, in Edward Fairfax Taylor, transl., The Æneid of Virgil, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.:
- Go, set the storm-winds free, / And sink their ships or scatter them astray, / And strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey.
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Derived terms
Translations
in a wrong direction
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References
- “astray”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Further reading
- “astray”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- astray at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “astray”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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