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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEMOTIC

De *mot "ic, a. Etym: [Gr. démotique.]

 

Defn: 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.

 

DEMOTICS

DEMOTICS De *mot "ics, n.

 

Defn: The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

demotic

de mot ic |diˈmätik dəˈmɑdɪk | ▶adjective denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; popular or colloquial: a demotic idiom. • relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing. Compare with katharevousa. • relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from c. 650 bc and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period. Compare with hieratic. ▶noun ordinary colloquial speech. • demotic Greek. • demotic Egyptian script. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to the Egyptian demotic ’): from Greek dēmotikos ‘popular, ’ from dēmotēs ‘one of the people, ’ from dēmos ‘the people. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

demotic

demotic |dɪˈmɒtɪk | ▶adjective denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial: a demotic idiom. • relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing. Compare with katharevousa. • relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from c. 650 bc and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period. Compare with hieratic. ▶noun [ mass noun ] ordinary colloquial speech. • demotic Greek. • demotic Egyptian script. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to the Egyptian demotic ’): from Greek dēmotikos ‘popular ’, from dēmotēs ‘one of the people ’, from dēmos ‘the people ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

demotic

demotic adjective she picked up her demotic style of writing when she worked for a newspaper: popular, vernacular, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar, common; informal, everyday, slangy. ANTONYMS formal.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

demotic

demotic adjective in trade journals he would adopt a more demotic style: popular; vernacular, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar, common; informal, everyday, non-literary, unofficial, slangy; rare enchorial. ANTONYMS formal.

 

Spanish Dictionary

demótico, -ca

demótico, -ca adjetivo [escritura ] Que se caracteriza por ser una simplificación de la escritura hierática egipcia; se empleaba en el s. vi a. C.:en la piedra hay una inscripción en tres tipos de escritura: jeroglífica, griega y demótica . VÉASE griego demótico .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

demotic

de mot ic /dɪmɑ́tɪk |-mɔ́t -/形容詞 ｟かたく ｠1 民衆の ▸ demotic Greek 現代通俗ギリシャ語 2 (古代エジプトの )民衆用簡易文字の .