Noun: wrong
| Singular | wrong |
| Plural | wrongs |
Sample Sentences
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Injustice is a heinous wrong.
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Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind? [1597, John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres, Part V:]
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I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the wrong. [c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], line 101:]
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Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant. [c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], line 28:]
Nouns inflected like wrong
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wrengʰ- /*wrengʷʰder.?
3. Proto-Germanic *wringaną
4. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
5. Proto-Germanic *-az
6. Proto-Germanic *wrangaz
7. Proto-West Germanic *wrang
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9. Old Norse rangrinflu.
10. Old English wrang
11. Old Norse rangrinflu.
12. Middle English wrong
13. English wrong
14. From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring. See: Middle English Nouns '
wrong', Old English Nouns '
wrang', Old Norse Nouns '
rangr', Icelandic Nouns '
rangur', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
rang'.
Verbs referencing "wrong"
Catalan Nouns
varenga.