orthography

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman ortografie, Middle French orthographie, and their source, Latin orthographia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ὀρθογραφία (orthographía), from ὀρθός (orthós, “correct”) and γράφω (gráphō, “write”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈθɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
• (US) enPR: ôrthäʹgrəfē, IPA^(key): /ɔɹˈθɑɡ.ɹə.fi/

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• Hyphenation: or‧thog‧ra‧phy

Noun

orthography (plural orthographies)

1. The study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
3. Spelling; the method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
4. (architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Derived terms

• orthographer
• orthographic
• orthographical
• orthographically
• orthographist

Synonyms

• spelling

Translations

study of correct spelling

• Arabic: علم الإملاء m (3ilm al-'imlaa'), هجاء m (hijaa'), تهجئة f (tahji'a)
• Armenian: ուղղագրություն (ułłagrutʿyun)
• Belarusian: правапіс m (pravapís), арфаграфія f (arfahráfija)
• Bulgarian: правопис (bg) m (pravopís), ортография (bg) f (ortográfija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正字法 (zh) (zhèngzìfǎ), 拼字 (zh) (pīnzì), 拼寫法, 拼写法 (zh) (pīnxiěfǎ), 正詞法, 正词法 (zhèngcífǎ), 拼寫, 拼写 (zh) (pīnxiě), 寫法, 写法 (zh) (xiěfǎ)

• Czech: pravopis m
• Dutch: spelling (nl) f
• Finnish: ortografia (fi)
• French: orthographe (fr) f
• Georgian: მართლწერა (mart’lcera), ორთოგრაფია (ka) (ort’ograp’ia)
• German: Orthografie (de) f, Rechtschreibung (de) f
• Icelandic: réttritun (is) f
• Irish: ortagrafaíocht f
• Japanese: 正字法 (せいじほう, seijihō), 綴り (つづり, tsuzuri), 文字綴り (moji-tsuzuri), 正書法 (ja) (せいしよほう, seishohō), オーソグラフィー (ōsogurafī), スペリング (superingu), スペル (superu), 綴り字 (つづりじ, tsudzuriji)

• Kurdish: imla (ku), vekît (ku)
• Macedonian: правопис m (právopis), ортографија f (ortográfija)
• Malay: ejaan, ortografi
• Polish: ortografia (pl) f, pisownia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ortografia (pt) f
• Romanian: ortografie (ro) f
• Russian: орфография (ru) f (orfográfija), правописание (ru) n (pravopisánije), спеллинг m (spɛ́lling) (of English)
• Scottish Gaelic: litreachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пра̏вопӣс m, ортогра̀фија f

  Roman: prȁvopīs m, ortogràfija f

• Slovak: pravopis m
• Slovene: pravopís
• Spanish: ortografía (es) f
• Swedish: rättstavning (sv) f, ortografi (sv) c
• Ukrainian: правопис (uk) m (pravópys), орфографія (uk) f (orfohráfija)
• Uyghur: ئىملا (imla)

aspect of language study concerned with letters and their correct sequence in words

• Armenian: ուղղագրություն (ułłagrutʿyun)
• Dutch: spelling (nl) f
• Finnish: ortografia (fi)
• French: orthographe (fr) f
• Irish: ortagrafaíocht f
• Macedonian: правопис m (právopis), ортографија f (ortográfija)
• Polish: ortografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ortografia (pt) f

• Russian: орфография (ru) f (orfográfija), правописание (ru) n (pravopisánije), спеллинг m (spɛ́lling) (of English)
• Scottish Gaelic: litreachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пра̏вопӣ m, ортогра̀фија f

  Roman: prȁvopīs m, ortogràfija f

• Spanish: ortografía (es) f
• Swedish: ortografi (sv) c

the method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols

• Albanian: drejtshkrim m
• Armenian: ուղղագրություն (ułłagrutʿyun)
• Dutch: spelling (nl) f
• Finnish: oikeinkirjoitus (fi)
• French: orthographe (fr) f
• Irish: ortagrafaíocht f
• Macedonian: правопис m (právopis), ортографија f (ortográfija)

• Polish: ortografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ortografia (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: litreachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пра̏вопӣ m, ортогра̀фија f

  Roman: prȁvopīs m, ortogràfija f

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ortografio

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} orthographia