ὀρθογραφία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀρθογρᾰ́φος (orthográphos) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /or.tʰo.ɡra.pʰí.aː/ → /or.θo.ɣraˈɸi.a/ → /or.θo.ɣraˈfi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /or.tʰo.ɡra.pʰí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /or.tʰo.ɡraˈpʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /or.θo.ɣraˈɸi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /or.θo.ɣraˈfi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /or.θo.ɣraˈfi.a/

Noun

ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ • (orthographíā) f (genitive ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. orthography

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ hē orthographíā	τὼ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ orthographíā	αἱ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αι hai orthographíai
Genitive	τῆς ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tês orthographíās	τοῖν ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn orthographíain	τῶν ὀρθογρᾰφῐῶν tôn orthographiôn
Dative	τῇ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾳ têi orthographíāi	τοῖν ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn orthographíain	ταῖς ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αις taîs orthographíais
Accusative	τὴν ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱν tḕn orthographíān	τὼ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ orthographíā	τᾱ̀ς ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tā̀s orthographíās
Vocative	ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ orthographíā	ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ orthographíā	ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αι orthographíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Belarusian: арфаграфія (arfahrafija)
• Greek: ορθογραφία (orthografía)
• → Latin: orthographia
  • → Catalan: ortografia
  • → Middle French: orthographie
    • → English: orthography
    • French: orthographe
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: ortografi
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: ortografi
  • → Italian: ortografia
  • → Latvian: ortogrāfija
  • → Portuguese: ortografia
  • → Romanian: ortografie
  • → Spanish: ortografía
    • → Cebuano: ortograpiya
    • → Tagalog: ortograpiya
• → Russian: орфография (orfografija)
  • → Kazakh: орфография (orfografiä)
  • → Turkmen: orfografiýa
  • → Uzbek: orfografiya

Further reading

• “ὀρθογραφία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀρθογραφία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette