demotic

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of or for the common people.
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.
3. (not-comparable) Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.

Noun

Language as spoken or written by the common people.

Opposite of

formal#Adjective

Synonyms

popular

folksy

enchorial

laic

lay

municipal

nonstandard

vernacular

vulgar

Demotic

Romaic

popular idiom

colloquial

colloquially

Translations

démotique

umgangssprachlich

δημοτικός

κοινός

λαϊκός

Umgangssprache

δημώδης

demotisch

stin kathomilovmeni

δημοτική

familier

familièrement

langage

popular

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/

Etymology

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