street
/stˈɹit/STREET
/stˈɹit/STREET
Meaninga paved (spread) way
Common meaning: a paved road in a town
- streetto spread out, lay flatLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1757 · scan
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√STAR‘strew, spread out’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 425, p. 745 · scan
- Latinsternō, strāvī, strātum‘to spread out, lay flat’
- Middle Englishstretesource
- Englishmeaning shiftsto spread out, lay flat → a paved road in a townstreet‘a paved road in a town’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin sternō ‘to spread out, lay flat’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry sternō, p. 1757 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry STREET, p. 602 · dictionary scan
Roots
- sternō, strāvī, strātum Latin “to spread out, lay flat”
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