demotic

a. 人民的, 民众的, 通俗的

发音

UK /dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/
其它
US /dɪˈmɑ.tɪk/

词形变化

demotics 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Language as spoken or written by the common people.

    可数 不可数 语言学

    Near-synonym: vernacular

    2010, John C. Wells, accents map Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of or for the common people.

    demotic writing style

  2. 2.

    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. 3.

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

    demotic Greek

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

greek hieratic
形容词

近义相关 1

common

相关短语

Demotic Greek

词源

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

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