demotic

adjective · nounB1

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adjective

1.
(not comparable)Of or for the common people.
demotic writing style
Đồng nghĩa: colloquial, informal, popular, vernacular
2.
(not comparable)Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 BCE and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors.
Đồng nghĩa: enchorial
3.
(not comparable)Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
demotic Greek

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

demotics

1.
(countable, uncountable)(linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
Near-synonym: vernacular
2010, John C. Wells, accents map Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.
Đồng nghĩa: vernacular

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

colloquialinformal popular vernacular enchorialvernacular#Adjective

Trái nghĩa

formalformal#Adjective

Cùng gốc / liên quan

demoticallydemoticistDemotic Greekdemotist

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First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (common), from δημότης (commoner), from δῆμος (the common people).