ortogrāfija

Latvian

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin orthographia, itself a borrowing from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ὀρθογραφία (orthographía), from ὀρθός (orthós, “correct”) and γράφω (gráphō, “write”).

Noun

ortogrāfija f (4th declension)

  1. orthography, correct spelling (the officially correct way to spell words in a given language)
    ortogrāfijas principi ― orthographic principles
    vecā ortogrāfija ― old orthography (in Latvia, before the 1920s)
    jaunā ortogrāfija ― new orthography (in Latvia, after the 1920s)
    1918. gadā padomju valdība pieņēma lēmumu par krievu ortogrāfijas grozīšanu ― in 1918 the Soviet government adopted a decision on the amendment of the Russian orthography
    viena no meitenēm paskaidro ortogrāfijas likumus, bet kāds zēns pasaka interpunkcijas likumus ― one of the girls explains the orthography rules, while a boy talks about punctuation rules

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