Meaning

3 senses
  1. (not comparable)Of or for the common people.

    demotic writing style

    наро́дныйnaródnyj, простонаро́дныйprostonaródnyj

    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.

    demotisch

    демоти́ческийdemotíčeskij

  3. (not comparable)Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.

    demotic Greek

    димоти́ческийdimotíčeskij

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

Examples

1 sentences
  1. André is studying Demotic now.

    deAndré lernt jetzt Demotisch. — Vortarulo

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
of or for the common people:
of the cursive ancient Egyptian script:
of modern vernacular Greek:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of the cursive ancient Egyptian script:

Origin

First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δημότης (

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

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