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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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ortogrāfija f (4th declension)

  1. orthography, correct spelling (the officially correct way to spell words in a given language)
    ortogrāfijas principiorthographic principles
    vecā ortogrāfijaold orthography (in Latvia, before the 1920s)
    jaunā ortogrāfijanew orthography (in Latvia, after the 1920s)
    1918. gadā padomju valdība pieņēma lēmumu par krievu ortogrāfijas grozīšanuin 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 likumusone of the girls explains the orthography rules, while a boy talks about punctuation rules

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