demotic

Meaning

1. Of or for the common people.
2. 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.
3. Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.

Demotic

popular idiom

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/

First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”).