Cardinal error
A fundamental and serious error is called a cardinal error .
It describes a mistake that makes a given task completely unsolvable or an error in the basis of a conceptual or physical construction.
According to Duden , the spelling cardinal s Fehler is not permitted.
etymology
The word component Kardinal- is borrowed from the Latin adjective cardinalis , which also translate the German words Eck- , Angel- and Haupt- . This in turn is derived from cardo , the name for the north-south main axis of the square Roman city system and more generally for "axis", "(door) hinge", "corner, hinge or main point", and is connected in the ancient and Medieval tradition especially with the ideas of the four cardinal points, namely the regions of the world or cardinal points , which are formed by the main axes ( cardines ) from north to south and from east to west, the four cardinal virtues ( virtutes cardinales ) and the church Latin title of cardinal . According to a medieval etymology, the latter is explained by the fact that the entire church is ruled by the cardinals "like the door is ruled by a hinge".
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Duden: Cardinal error
- ↑ Duden: Cardinal error
- ↑ "... inde dicti sunt cardinales per quos tota Ecclesia, sicut ostium per cardinem, gubernatur", Durandus von Mende († 1296), Rationale divinorum officiorum , II, i, 17, CCCM 140A