Straße.
street; road (a way wide enough to be passable for vehicles, generally paved, in or outside a settlement)
Meaning & usage
street; road (a way wide enough to be passable for vehicles, generally paved, in or outside a settlement)
Das Kind überquerte die Straße.
Diese Straße führt nach Kirchdorf.
carriageway (the part of a road or street used by vehicles, excluding the pavement, etc.)
public, any area accessible to anyone
general public, using the locale to describe people not part of a specific group
the streets, areas or groups of people of no income or criminal affiliation, or the leading of a life associated with these
strait (channel of water)
straight
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós Proto-Italic *strātos Latin strātus Latin via strātaellip. Late Latin strātabor. Proto-West Germanic *strātu Old High German strāȥa Middle High German strāȥe German Straße Inherited from Middle High German strāȥe, from Old High German strāȥa, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin (via) strata. Sense 6 (“strait”) is a calque of Middle Low German strâte, itself a phono-semantic matching of Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (“narrow”), from unrelated Latin strictus.
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