typoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Clipping of typographical error.

名詞

typo (plural typos or typoes)

1. A typographical error. [from late 19th c.]

   Hyponym: atomic typo

   Coordinate terms: writo; clicko, copy-pasto, hearo, scanno, speako, spello, thinko

   Near-synonyms: misprint; slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ

   Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.

   • 2023 May 18, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, in The New York Times‎:

     His 14 singles titles still look like a typo even for those like me who have watched him build that probably unbreakable record, red brick by red brick.

派生語

• tpyo, tyop

動詞

typo (third-person singular simple present typos, present participle typoing, simple past and past participle typoed or typo'd)

1. (transitive) To make a typographical error.
   • 1993, Piers Anthony, edited by Alan Riggs, Letters to Jenny, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 108:

     Tell your mother that that essay I wrote for THE WRITER, that mentions you, is now in print in the Aw-Ghost issue. But they typoed Elfquest, so now it reads Elquist. I see I had typoed it myself, leaving out the “f” but they worsened it.

語源 2

Clipping of typographer.

名詞

typo (countable and uncountable, plural typos)

1. (colloquial, dated, countable) A compositor; a typographer. [from early 19th c.]
   • 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Sisters of the Golden Circle”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:

     On the highest, rear seat was James Williams, of Cloverdale, Missouri, and his Bride.
     Capitalise it, friend typo—that last word—word of words in the epiphany of life and love.

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

     “Ever since I was twelve,” she said, “I have worked in a printing office where a celebrated London morning journal is put in type and goes to press. […] I am attached to a man in our office, to whom I shall be married some day. […] I am nineteen now, and have carried on with my ‘typo’ for nearly three years now.

語源 3

名詞

typo

1. Alternative form of taipo.

Further reading

• “typo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “typo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• -topy, pyot