demotic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or for the common people

   Demotic entertainments.

2. 2
   adj

   Of or for the common people.

   Demotic writing style.

3. 3
   adj

   Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.

   Demotic Greek.

4. 4
   noun

   Language as spoken or written by the common people.

   Near-synonym: vernacular.

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

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