de·mot·ic
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| 1. | of or pertaining to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language; vernacular: a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to the common people; popular. |
| 3. | of, pertaining to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 b.c. and a.d. 500. |
| 4. | demotic script. |
| 5. | (initial capital letter ) Also called Romaic. the Modern Greek vernacular (distinguished from Katharevusa). |
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adj.
n. Demotic Greek. [Greek dēmotikos, from dēmotēs, a commoner, from dēmos, people; see dā- in Indo-European roots.] |
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demotic
1822, from Gk. demotikos "of or for the common people," from demos "common people," originally "district," from PIE *da-mo- "division," from base *da- "to divide" (see tide). In contrast to hieratic. Originally of the simpler of two forms of ancient Egyptian writing; broader sense is from 1831; used of Greek since 1927.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| demotic | |
adjective | |
| 1. | of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use |
| 2. | of or for the common people; "demotic entertainments"; "demotic speech"; "a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms" |
noun | |
| 1. | a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script; "Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek" |
| 2. | the modern Greek vernacular [syn: Romaic] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Demotic
De*mot"ic\, a. [Gr. dhmotiko`s, fr. dh^mos the people: cf. F. d['e]motique.] Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demotic alphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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