ORTHOGRAPHIC.

In reference to a type of perspective in drawings (1660s), from ortho- “true, correct” + -graphic “of or pertaining to drawing,” derived from Greek orthographia, from orthos ‘correct’ + -graphia ‘writing’. Meaning of “belonging to the writing of words with proper letters,” or “relating to the spelling of words” (by 1868) derived from orthography.

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STREET.

From Late Latin strata, used elliptically for via strata “paved road,” from Latin sternere “lay down, spread out, pave,” from PIE *stre-to- “to stretch, extend,” from root *stere- “to spread, extend, stretch out.” Related: stratum (singular noun of pluralstrata) meaning a “horizontal layer,” from Latin stratum “thing spread out, pavement, blanket,” from stratus “prostrate or prone.”

Etymology Online: Orthographic; Street (2020)

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