strete

See also: stréte

Ido

Adverb

strete

1. narrowly, tightly

Related terms

• streta

Middle English

strete

Alternative forms

• street, streete, stret
• stræt (Early Middle English); strate (East Saxon)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English strǣt, strēt, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Late Latin strāta (“paved road”). The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstreːt(ə)/, /ˈstrɛ̝ːt(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈstraːt(ə)/ (East Saxon)

Noun

strete (plural stretes or strete or (early) streten)

1. A road or path connecting two destinations.
2. A street; such a road or pathway within a settlement.
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 5-6; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:

     Þou comeſt fer iþe bꝛode ſtret fer iþe bꝛode ſtrete. / ſumme of þin cuneſmen ther thou meiſt imete.

     You'll go far down the main street, far down the main street; / You might [even] meet some of your relatives there.

3. A settlement; a conglomeration of habitations and shops.
4. (figurative) A choice or way of living; a doctrine.
5. (rare) A hallway or passage within a structure or building.
6. (rare) A porch or veranda; a covered deck.

Descendants

• English: street
• Scots: street, streit, stret
• → Breton: straed
• → Cornish: stret
• → Welsh: stryd

References

• “strẹ̄t(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 March 2019.
• Burnley, David (1983), “5. Linguistic Diversity”, in A guide to Chaucer's language‎^[1], Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110.

Old Frisian

Ēne strēte.

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Latin strāta. Cognates include Old English strǣt, Old Saxon strāta and Old Dutch strāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstreːte/, [ˈstrɛːte]

Noun

strēte f

1. street

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: struat

  Mooring: stroote

  Sylt: Straat

• Saterland Frisian: Sträite
• West Frisian: strjitte

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN