different between orthography vs anachronism

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman ortografie, Middle French orthographie, and their source, Latin orthographia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ?????????? (orthographía), from ????? (orthós, “correct”) and ????? (gráph?, “write”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??????.??.fi/
• (US) enPR: ôrthä?gr?f?, IPA^(key): /??????.??.fi/
• Hyphenation: or?thog?ra?phy
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

orthography (countable and uncountable, plural orthographies)

1. The study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
3. Synonym of spelling: the specific method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
4. (architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:orthography.

Synonyms

• (study of representing sound in writing): orthoepy (inexact)

Coordinate terms

• (study of representing sound in writing): orthoepy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

orthography (third-person singular simple present orthographies, present participle orthographying, simple past and past participle orthographied)

1. (transitive) To write according to established usage.

English

Etymology

From New Latin anachronismus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (anakhronismós), from ????????????? (anakhronízomai, “referring to the wrong time”), from ??? (aná, “up against”) + ??????? (khroníz?, “spending time”), from ?????? (khrónos, “time”). Analyzable as ana- +? chrono- +? -ism

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n?k?r?n?zm, ?n?k?r?n?z?m; IPA^(key): /??næ.k??.n?.z(?)m/

Noun

anachronism (countable and uncountable, plural anachronisms)

1. A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object. [from 17th c.]
2. A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time. [from 19th c.]

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Translations

Further reading

• anachronism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Anachronism”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 300, column 2.

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