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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024de•mot•ic (di mot′ik),USA pronunciation adj. - Linguisticsof or pertaining to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language;
vernacular:a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms. - Archaeologyof or pertaining to the common people;
popular. - Archaeology, Linguisticsof, pertaining to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 b.c. and a.d. 500.
n. - Linguisticsdemotic script.
- Language Varieties(cap.) Also called Romaic. the Modern Greek vernacular (distinguished from Katharevusa).
- Greek dēmotikós popular, plebeian, equivalent. to dēmót(ēs) a plebeian (derivative of dêmos; see demo-) + -ikos -ic
- 1815–25
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: demotic /dɪˈmɒtɪk/ adj - of or relating to the common people; popular
- of or relating to a simplified form of hieroglyphics used in ancient Egypt by the ordinary literate class outside the priesthood
Compare hieratic
n - the demotic script of ancient Egypt
Etymology: 19th Century: from Greek dēmotikos of the people, from dēmotēs a man of the people, commoner; see demosdeˈmotist n |