Demotic

What do we mean by demotic?

Of or relating to the common people; popular. adjective

Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing. adjective

Of or relating to a form of modern Greek based on colloquial use. adjective

Demotic Greek. noun

Popular; pertaining to the common people: specifically applied to a certain mode of writing used in Egypt for epistolary and business purposes from about the seventh century b. c., as distinguished from the hieratic and hieroglyphic. Also called enchorial.

Pertaining to a people developed beyond the tribal stage and including individuals of various kindreds or nationalities.

Social.

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. adjective

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. adjective

Of or for the common people. adjective

Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing. adjective

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

Language as spoken by the common people. noun

A simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script noun

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

The modern Greek vernacular noun

Of or for the common people adjective

Language as spoken or written by the common people.

Words that are spelled similarly to demotic:
demotic, demonic.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word demotic:
hieratic, ideographic, hieroglyphic, papyri, coptic, koine, papyrus, ptolemaic, rosetta, phonetic, egyptian, athenian, greek, vernacular, prose, script, alphabet, archaic, dialect, vocabulary, grammatical, greeks, spoken, linguistic, chronicle, language, correctly, hymn, ancient, riots, egypt, varieties, borrowed, inscription, text, vietnamese, signs, greece, dictionary, poets, translation, bce, literary, poetry, byzantine, arabic, athens, dated, verse, evolved, grammar, modern, words, scholar, dialogue, poet, artificial, centuries, correct, documents, folk, literature, formal, entirely, written, speech, preserved, dynasty, forms, scholars, writing, pure, reign, indeed, seem, document, letters, orthodox, extent, poems, tradition, turkish, question, stone, languages, purposes, authors, official, dating, learned, differences, magic, temple, roman, derived.

Adjectives that are often used to describe demotic:
hieroglyphic, egyptian, common, standard, urban, most, modern, more, low, own, caribbean, literary, early.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective demotic:
script, greek, language, writing, text, texts, papyri, characters, spells, papyrus, speech, documents, form, version, songs, composition, character, inscription, style, literature, tradition, signs, culture, inscriptions, instructions, society, forms, french, song, alphabet, letters, tales, english, tongue, discourse, chronicle, egyptian, studies, idiom, nationalism, contracts, societies, virtue, grammar, discourses, poetry, movement, scripts, ostraca, document, voice, names, schools, versions, story, translation, word, name, prose, music, languages, verse, art, wisdom, writings, vocabulary, politics, writer, dialect, nation, sign, habits, scribes, virtues, american, stories, graffito, populism, usage, writers, appeal, ethnies, voices, tale, symbols, contract.

Consonant match to demotic:
dalmatic.

Words that sound like demotic:
demotic, dramatic, domestic, tummy tuck, d'amato, dermatic, diotic, haematic, hematic, demonic, donata, dematteo, dogmatic, drumstick, dominik, donato, demark, damato, drum stick, dalmatic, di matteo, henotic, demodex, automatic, tomato, tomatoe, semitic, somatic, sematic, tomatto, hamitic, stomatic, tomatoey, rhematic, dumbstruck, demic, dumptruck, dump truck, dimity, demick, dumb luck, demoting, diptych, dimmick, damita, dimick, deer tick, deltic, demat, demarc, detick, idiotic, dominic, dumpty, dominick, dramatics, dmitri, idiomatic, domenic, dynastic, diametric, domestics, dundalk, domonique, demonte, osmotic, donati, donetsk, dyadic, domestica, diegetic, zymotic, deistic, deictic, domic, nematic, tomasek, domenech, domestique, dichotic, daemonic, omotic, dramatique, comatic, dentata, detec, dimmock, the motto, dimock, dimout, dizygotic, dymek, digitech, dimittis, genetic, asthmatic, emetic, cyanotic, automatik, athematic.