orthographic

English

Alternative forms

• orthographick (obsolete)

Etymology

From ortho- +‎ -graph +‎ -ic. Compare French orthographique, Latin orthographus, Ancient Greek ὀρθογράφος (orthográphos).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɔːθəˈɡɹæfɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɔːɹθəˈɡɹæfɪk/
• Rhymes: -æfɪk

Adjective

orthographic (not comparable)

1. Of a projection used in maps, architecture etc., in which the rays are parallel.
2. Of, or relating to, orthography.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 10:

     This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.

Synonyms

• (maps): orthographical

Derived terms

• orthographic neighbor
• orthographic neighborhood
• orthographic neighbour
• orthographic neighbourhood

Translations

projection of maps

• Czech: ortografický
• Finnish: ortografinen (fi)
• German: orthographisch (de)
• Hungarian: ortografikus
• Macedonian: ортогра́фски (ortográfski)
• Russian: орфографи́ческий (ru) (orfografíčeskij)
• Spanish: ortogonal (es)
• Swedish: ortografisk (sv)

relating to orthography

• Arabic: إِمْلَائِيّ (ʔimlāʔiyy)
• Armenian: ուղղագրական (hy) (uġġagrakan)
• Belarusian: арфаграфі́чны (arfahrafíčny), артаграфі́чны (artahrafíčny) (Taraškievica), правапі́сны (pravapísny), правапіса́льны (pravapisálʹny)
• Bulgarian: правопи́сен (pravopísen), ортографи́чен (ortografíčen)
• Catalan: ortogràfic
• Czech: pravopisný, ortografický
• Danish: ortografisk
• Dutch: orthografisch (nl)
• Finnish: ortografinen (fi)
• French: orthographique (fr)
• Georgian: ორთოგრაფიული (ortograpiuli)
• German: orthographisch (de)
• Hungarian: helyesírási (hu)
• Irish: ortagrafach
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: orthographicus
• Macedonian: правописен m (pravopisen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ortografisk

• Polish: ortograficzny (pl)
• Portuguese: ortográfico (pt)
• Romanian: ortografic (ro) m
• Russian: орфографи́ческий (ru) (orfografíčeskij), правопи́сный (ru) (pravopísnyj)
• Slovak: pravopisný, ortografický
• Slovene: pravopisen, ortografski
• Spanish: ortográfico (es)
• Swedish: ortografisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: орфографі́чний (uk) (orfohrafíčnyj), ортографі́чний (ortohrafíčnyj), правопи́сний (pravopýsnyj)