Demotic

Definitions: Demotic

Demotic

Adjective

1. Of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use.

2. Of or for the common people; "demotic entertainments"; "demotic speech"; "a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms".

Noun

1. The modern Greek vernacular.

Date "Demotic" was first used: 1822. (references)

Synonym: Demotic

Synonym: Romaic (n). (additional references)

Demotic is the ancient Egyptian script preceded by hieratic. After the introduction of demotic, hieratic remained in use for religious purposes, while demotic was used for economic and literary purposes. In contrast to hieratic, demotic was often carved into stone and wood.

Demotic was in use by 660 BC and became the dominant script of ancient Egypt by 600 BC. In the early 4th century, demotic was replaced by Greek; its last known use was in 196 BC. upon the Rosetta stone.

Crosswords: Demotic

English words defined with "Demotic": Demotic alphabet ♦ Enchoric ♦ Hieratic character ♦ mode of writing. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Miscellany of Demotic Texts and Studies (The Carlsbert Papyri, 3) (reference) Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies: Copenhagen, 23-27 August 1999 (reference) Demotic Greek I (reference) Demotic Greek II: The Flying Telephone Booth (reference) Demotic Greek Instruction By the Oral Au (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Sings Demotic Songs (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Demotic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Demotic" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	15	90,616

Expressions using "Demotic": Demotic alphabet ♦ Demotic character ♦ demotic characters. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "Demotic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		popullor (folk, national, pop, popular, vogue, vulgar, well known). (various references)

Arabic		‏شعبي (bronchial, classless, communal, folk, pop, popular, public, vulgar). (various references)

Bulgarian		народен (folk, national, popular, public, vernacular, vulgar), демотичен. (various references)

Czech		degradaèní. (various references)

French		domotique, populaire. (various references)

Greek		λαϊκόσ (folksy, laic, lay, layman, popular), δημοτικόσ (municipal), δημοτική (popular idiom, romaic). (various references)

Hungarian		népies (folksy, popular). (various references)

Italian		popolare (become populated, folk, people, pop, popular, populate). (various references)

Pig Latin		emoticday

Portuguese		demótico, vulgar (accepted, artless, banal, blanket, coarse, common, commonplace, dismal, earthy, everyday, everything, got drunk, gross, hackneycarriage, hacksaw, humdrum, inelaborate, low, low-necked, mediocre, ordinary, pedestrian crosswalk, penny-a-liner, platitudinous, Plato, prosaic, quotidian, ready made, soulless, trite, trivial, undistinguished, uninspired, unladylike, unoriginal, usual, vulgar, vulgarian), popular (common, communal, exothermal, piny, popular, popular saying), comum (accepted, accredited, appellative, blanket, cheap, common, commonplace, communal, everyday, garden, general, habituate, inelaborate, joint, mutual, ordinary, public, run of the mill, usual, vulgar, vulgarian). (various references)

Russian		народный (folk, national, people's, popular, vernacular, vulgar), демотический. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		narodni (folk, national, popular, public). (various references)

Spanish		demótico, popular (famed, lore, pop, popular). (various references)

Turkish		halk ile ilgili. (various references)

Ukranian		народний (national, popular, populous, public), демотичний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	demotikos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Demotic": demotics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Demotic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demetric, deontic, diotic, duotac, semotic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "Demotic" (pronounced 'De*mot"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-m-o-t"
	-1 letter: coedit, medico.
	-2 letters: cited, comet, comte, coted, demit, dicot, domic, edict, medic, timed.
	-3 letters: cedi, cite, code, coed, come, cote, deco, demo, dice, diet, dime, dite, doit, dome, dote, edit, emic, emit, etic, iced, idem, item, mice, mite, mode, modi, mote, odic, omit, otic, tide, tied, time, toed, tome.
	-4 letters: cod, cot, die, dim.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-m-o-t"
	+1 letter: demotics, domestic, methodic, morticed.
	+2 letters: committed, condiment, domestics.
	+3 letters: coadmitted, collimated, comminuted, composited, condiments, customised, customized, decimation, democratic, dichromate, dictyosome, dosimetric, entodermic, medication, mediocrity, methodical, midsection, miscounted, mislocated, mistouched, nematocide, outclimbed, undomestic.
	+4 letters: audiometric, bichromated, commodities, complicated, condimental, decimations, declamation, demarcation, democratize, dichotomies, dichotomize, dichromates, dictyosomes, discomfited, divorcement, documenting, domesticate, domesticity, domiciliate, endomitotic, endothecium, endothermic, eudiometric, hydrometric, malediction, maledictory, medications, methodistic, micromethod, midsections, miscomputed, modernistic, mucopeptide, multicoated, mustachioed, nematocidal, nematocides, nondomestic, radiometric, recommitted, sextodecimo, thermoduric, tragicomedy, uncommitted.
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