demoticn.adj.

Brit.

/dᵻˈmɒtɪk/, U.S.

/dᵻˈmɑdɪk/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek δημοτικός.

Etymology: < ancient Greek δημοτικός of or for the people, designating a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, popular, common, democratic < δημότης demot n. + -ικός -ic suffix.In senses B. 1b and A. 2 after modern Greek δημοτικός (adjective), δημοτική (noun, short for δημοτική γλῶσση vernacular language); compare katharevousa n.

A. n.

1. A simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script; the form of the ancient Egyptian language written in this script. See sense B. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > cursive

written hand1580

joining-hand1583

join-handa1652

running-hand1741

demotic1782

cursive1861

joined-up writing1983

1782 T. Pownall Treat. Study Antiq. 208 The writing for common business (the demotic, as Herodotus calls it).

1823 Eclectic Rev. Dec. 492 The reading of the hieroglyphics begins at that end of the inscription towards which the heads of the animals are turned: the demotic is always read from right to left.

1896 Academy 12 Sept. 185/2 Demotic is naturally left out of the account, as well as the dead languages of the base epochs.

1977 K. Katzner Langs. of World (U.K. ed.) ii. 161 The Coptic alphabet consists of thirty-two letters, twenty-five borrowed from the Greek, and seven from Demotic, a later simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

2003 Independent 24 July (Review section) 2/4 The stone was..also in demotic—the everyday language of the time.

2. The form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing. See sense B. 1b. Contrasted with katharevousa n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > modern

Romaic1723

Romaika1797

neo-Hellenic1869

demotic1901

katharevousa1912

1901 Rep. Commissioner Educ. 1899–1900 (Washington) II. 1310 This real and dialectic demotic of the modern Greeks appeared when writers no longer thought of making their works presentable to the Byzantine Empire in its entirety.

1927 H. Nicolson Some People iii. 76 And from the bridge the second officer Shouts demotic to the Company's agent.

1964 Language 40 274 Here we encounter katharevusa clusters..which vary with normal demotic.

2004 C. Tyler in Slightly Foxed Spring 74 Kazantzakis wrote not in the classicized formal Greek of the Establishment, but—and this was a political act—in demotic, the colourful, flexible and metaphorical language of the street.

3. Ordinary colloquial speech; the everyday language of ordinary people.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > colloquial language

colloquialisma1834

Vulgate1854

colloquiality1876

colloquialness1877

demotic1917

colloquial1921

1917 C. P. Keith Chrons. Pennsylvania II. xvii. 548 Besides this [sc. Pennsylvania Dutch], which we may call their Demotic, the inhabitants have used, at least to the extent of reading, what Luther made the literary language of Germany.

1964 J. T. Pring in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 357 Now it is the partisans of demotic who are to the fore; and demotic has become the language of primary education.

1970 C. P. Snow Last Things 7 At that stage, he had a knack of speaking what he thought of as American demotic.

1990 Poetry Rev. Spring 78/1 It must be just as well that you in your small culture corner and I in mine should regularly have our toffee noses rubbed in late-twentieth-century demotic.

2006 Independent 1 July 37/4 What television does best of all is serious talk, though you wouldn't expect BBC executives, with their devotion to the tunelessness of demotic, to agree with that.

B. adj.

a. Designating a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, or the form of the ancient Egyptian language written in this script; written in or belonging to this script or language. Contrasted with hieratic (hieratic adj. 1a) and hieroglyphic (hieroglyphic adj. 1). Now usually with capital initial.The script is first known from c650 b.c. Greek became the principal language of administration in the Ptolemaic period, and Demotic became increasingly rare from the Roman conquest (30 b.c.) onwards, with the last known example in the 5th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > of specific languages > Egyptian

epistolographic1669

hieratic1669

epistolic1670

demotic1822

enchorial1822

1822 Q. Rev. 28 189 To prove, that neither the hieratic or sacerdotal, nor the demotic or vulgar, writing is alphabetic.

1850 W. E. Gladstone Homer II. ii. 165 Some other country having, like Egypt, an hieratic and also a demotic tongue.

1880 A. H. Sayce in Nature 19 Feb. 380/1 The only change undergone by Egyptian writing was the invention of a running-hand, which in its earlier and simpler form is called hieratic, and in its later form demotic.

1922 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 8 277 ‘Power of God’ appears both in singular and plural as a kind of ‘genius’ in demotic literature.

1994 J. Edwards Multilingualism (1995) 231 American work on dictionaries of the Assyrian, Sumerian, Demotic Egyptian, Hittite and other languages is clearly worthy and scholarly.

2003 Jrnl. Amer. Res. Center in Egypt 40 69 An unusual example..because of its Asyut provenance, its three Demotic inscriptions, and the style and iconography of its painted decoration.

b. Designating the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing; written in or belonging to this form of Greek. Cf. katharevousa n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Greek > of modern Greek

Romaika1609

Romaic1809

demotic1860

1860 Quaritch's Catal. 164 Plates 1-14 of Demotic Inscriptions, and 8 plates on 4 leaves of an apparently Demotic Greek Vocabulary.

1927 H. Nicolson Some People vii. 172 He slowly approached Essad Pasha and addressed him in demotic Greek.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 232/1 It is used in some technical writing, but not in literature, which is written in dhimotiké, the demotic or ‘popular’ tongue.

c. Designating the kind of language used by ordinary people; written in or belonging to this kind of language; vernacular; colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > colloquial

vulgar1677

idiomatic1712

colloquial1752

informal1832

demotic1872

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 227/2 The one..does what in demotic phrase is called the ‘sarsing’.

1922 T. S. Eliot Waste Land 212 Mr Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant..Asked me in demotic French To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel.

1961 Listener 30 Mar. 573/3 In fact advertising has, of necessity, to use simple, forceful, easily understandable words—‘demotic’ language, as Mr Whitehead might call it.

1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Feb. 29/2 A qualm about demotic West Indian poetry.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Mar. 30/4 Armitage's demotic flashes come to strobe the mind's eye. ‘They upped and left’, ‘chunters the knight’..‘a heck of a lick’, [etc.].

2. gen. Of, relating to, or characteristic of ordinary people; intended for or suited to the understanding or taste of ordinary people. Frequently mildly depreciative. Cf. popular adj. 4a.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adjective]

landish1489

popil1531

popular1533

secular1589

plebeial1590

plebeian1602

vulgar1605

plebal1606

multitudinousa1616

gregarian1632

gregary1640

populous1657

roturière1791

demotic1831

vulgarian1833

demic1834

commonal1865

communal1878

folkish1938

plebby1962

pleb1972

1831 S. Smith Mr Dyson's Speech on Reform 19 Demotic habits will be more common in a country where the rich are forced to court the poor for political power.

1881 Times 26 Apr. 4/1 There is nothing in the position that the demotic mind can apprehend.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 30/3 Mr Amis's attitudes as a writer are not so demotic as his choice of terms seems to pretend. There is a suggestion of linguistic slumming, tweedy slanginess.

1967 R. Mabey Class 110 Not only did ITV develop the popular touch—it nurtured those diverse speech tones and accents which belonged naturally to the more demotic channel.

1990 Classic CD July 53/2 It may sound aristocratically stately or jauntily demotic.

2009 Art Q. Spring 41/2 The more demotic attractions of prom, pier and shopping streets.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	demotic
释义	demoticn.adj. Brit. /dᵻˈmɒtɪk/, U.S. /dᵻˈmɑdɪk/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek δημοτικός. Etymology: < ancient Greek δημοτικός of or for the people, designating a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, popular, common, democratic < δημότης demot n. + -ικός -ic suffix.In senses B. 1b and A. 2 after modern Greek δημοτικός (adjective), δημοτική (noun, short for δημοτική γλῶσση vernacular language); compare katharevousa n. A. n. 1. A simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script; the form of the ancient Egyptian language written in this script. See sense B. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > cursive written hand1580 joining-hand1583 join-handa1652 running-hand1741 demotic1782 cursive1861 joined-up writing1983 1782 T. Pownall Treat. Study Antiq. 208 The writing for common business (the demotic, as Herodotus calls it). 1823 Eclectic Rev. Dec. 492 The reading of the hieroglyphics begins at that end of the inscription towards which the heads of the animals are turned: the demotic is always read from right to left. 1896 Academy 12 Sept. 185/2 Demotic is naturally left out of the account, as well as the dead languages of the base epochs. 1977 K. Katzner Langs. of World (U.K. ed.) ii. 161 The Coptic alphabet consists of thirty-two letters, twenty-five borrowed from the Greek, and seven from Demotic, a later simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. 2003 Independent 24 July (Review section) 2/4 The stone was..also in demotic—the everyday language of the time. 2. The form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing. See sense B. 1b. Contrasted with katharevousa n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > modern Romaic1723 Romaika1797 neo-Hellenic1869 demotic1901 katharevousa1912 1901 Rep. Commissioner Educ. 1899–1900 (Washington) II. 1310 This real and dialectic demotic of the modern Greeks appeared when writers no longer thought of making their works presentable to the Byzantine Empire in its entirety. 1927 H. Nicolson Some People iii. 76 And from the bridge the second officer Shouts demotic to the Company's agent. 1964 Language 40 274 Here we encounter katharevusa clusters..which vary with normal demotic. 2004 C. Tyler in Slightly Foxed Spring 74 Kazantzakis wrote not in the classicized formal Greek of the Establishment, but—and this was a political act—in demotic, the colourful, flexible and metaphorical language of the street. 3. Ordinary colloquial speech; the everyday language of ordinary people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > colloquial language colloquialisma1834 Vulgate1854 colloquiality1876 colloquialness1877 demotic1917 colloquial1921 1917 C. P. Keith Chrons. Pennsylvania II. xvii. 548 Besides this [sc. Pennsylvania Dutch], which we may call their Demotic, the inhabitants have used, at least to the extent of reading, what Luther made the literary language of Germany. 1964 J. T. Pring in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 357 Now it is the partisans of demotic who are to the fore; and demotic has become the language of primary education. 1970 C. P. Snow Last Things 7 At that stage, he had a knack of speaking what he thought of as American demotic. 1990 Poetry Rev. Spring 78/1 It must be just as well that you in your small culture corner and I in mine should regularly have our toffee noses rubbed in late-twentieth-century demotic. 2006 Independent 1 July 37/4 What television does best of all is serious talk, though you wouldn't expect BBC executives, with their devotion to the tunelessness of demotic, to agree with that. B. adj. 1. a. Designating a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, or the form of the ancient Egyptian language written in this script; written in or belonging to this script or language. Contrasted with hieratic (hieratic adj. 1a) and hieroglyphic (hieroglyphic adj. 1). Now usually with capital initial.The script is first known from c650 b.c. Greek became the principal language of administration in the Ptolemaic period, and Demotic became increasingly rare from the Roman conquest (30 b.c.) onwards, with the last known example in the 5th cent. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > of specific languages > Egyptian epistolographic1669 hieratic1669 epistolic1670 demotic1822 enchorial1822 1822 Q. Rev. 28 189 To prove, that neither the hieratic or sacerdotal, nor the demotic or vulgar, writing is alphabetic. 1850 W. E. Gladstone Homer II. ii. 165 Some other country having, like Egypt, an hieratic and also a demotic tongue. 1880 A. H. Sayce in Nature 19 Feb. 380/1 The only change undergone by Egyptian writing was the invention of a running-hand, which in its earlier and simpler form is called hieratic, and in its later form demotic. 1922 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 8 277 ‘Power of God’ appears both in singular and plural as a kind of ‘genius’ in demotic literature. 1994 J. Edwards Multilingualism (1995) 231 American work on dictionaries of the Assyrian, Sumerian, Demotic Egyptian, Hittite and other languages is clearly worthy and scholarly. 2003 Jrnl. Amer. Res. Center in Egypt 40 69 An unusual example..because of its Asyut provenance, its three Demotic inscriptions, and the style and iconography of its painted decoration. b. Designating the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing; written in or belonging to this form of Greek. Cf. katharevousa n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Greek > of modern Greek Romaika1609 Romaic1809 demotic1860 1860 Quaritch's Catal. 164 Plates 1-14 of Demotic Inscriptions, and 8 plates on 4 leaves of an apparently Demotic Greek Vocabulary. 1927 H. Nicolson Some People vii. 172 He slowly approached Essad Pasha and addressed him in demotic Greek. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 232/1 It is used in some technical writing, but not in literature, which is written in dhimotiké, the demotic or ‘popular’ tongue. c. Designating the kind of language used by ordinary people; written in or belonging to this kind of language; vernacular; colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > colloquial vulgar1677 idiomatic1712 colloquial1752 informal1832 demotic1872 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 227/2 The one..does what in demotic phrase is called the ‘sarsing’. 1922 T. S. Eliot Waste Land 212 Mr Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant..Asked me in demotic French To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel. 1961 Listener 30 Mar. 573/3 In fact advertising has, of necessity, to use simple, forceful, easily understandable words—‘demotic’ language, as Mr Whitehead might call it. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Feb. 29/2 A qualm about demotic West Indian poetry. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Mar. 30/4 Armitage's demotic flashes come to strobe the mind's eye. ‘They upped and left’, ‘chunters the knight’..‘a heck of a lick’, [etc.]. 2. gen. Of, relating to, or characteristic of ordinary people; intended for or suited to the understanding or taste of ordinary people. Frequently mildly depreciative. Cf. popular adj. 4a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adjective] landish1489 popil1531 popular1533 secular1589 plebeial1590 plebeian1602 vulgar1605 plebal1606 multitudinousa1616 gregarian1632 gregary1640 populous1657 roturière1791 demotic1831 vulgarian1833 demic1834 commonal1865 communal1878 folkish1938 plebby1962 pleb1972 1831 S. Smith Mr Dyson's Speech on Reform 19 Demotic habits will be more common in a country where the rich are forced to court the poor for political power. 1881 Times 26 Apr. 4/1 There is nothing in the position that the demotic mind can apprehend. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 30/3 Mr Amis's attitudes as a writer are not so demotic as his choice of terms seems to pretend. There is a suggestion of linguistic slumming, tweedy slanginess. 1967 R. Mabey Class 110 Not only did ITV develop the popular touch—it nurtured those diverse speech tones and accents which belonged naturally to the more demotic channel. 1990 Classic CD July 53/2 It may sound aristocratically stately or jauntily demotic. 2009 Art Q. Spring 41/2 The more demotic attractions of prom, pier and shopping streets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1782
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