ὀρθογραφία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀρθογρᾰ́φος (orthogrắphos) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

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 • (orthogrăphĭ́ā) f (genitive ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. orthography

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ hē orthogrăphĭ́ā	τὼ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ orthogrăphĭ́ā	αἱ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αι hai orthogrăphĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tês orthogrăphĭ́ās	τοῖν ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn orthogrăphĭ́ain	τῶν ὀρθογρᾰφῐῶν tôn orthogrăphĭôn
Dative	τῇ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾳ têi orthogrăphĭ́āi	τοῖν ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn orthogrăphĭ́ain	ταῖς ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αις taîs orthogrăphĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱν tḕn orthogrăphĭ́ān	τὼ ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ orthogrăphĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tā̀s orthogrăphĭ́ās
Vocative	ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ orthogrăphĭ́ā	ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ orthogrăphĭ́ā	ὀρθογρᾰφῐ́αι orthogrăphĭ́ai
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