English
street map
From street + map.
Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- ‘to stretch out, extend, spread’
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Late Latin (via) strāta ‘paved (road)’
Proto-West Germanic *strātu ‘street’
Anglian Old English strēt ‘street’
Middle English strete ‘a road or path’
English street
Medieval Latin mappa mundī
Old French mapamonde ‘world map’
Middle English mappemounde ‘world map’
English map
Today it means
noun A map showing the streets in a city or district.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “street map”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / street map