different between hieratic vs demotic

English

Etymology

Latin hieraticus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (hieratikós), from ???????? (hierateía, “priesthood”), from ???????? (hierateú?, “be a priest”), from ?????? (hiereús, “priest”), from ????? (hierós, “sacred”).

Use pertaining to the Egyptian writing system originates with the Greek phrase ???????? ???????? (grámmata hieratiká, literally “priestly writing”), which was first used by Saint Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd century AD, as at that time hieratic was used only for religious texts, as had been the case for the previous thousand years.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?(?)??æt?k/

Adjective

hieratic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to priests, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt.

   Synonyms: sacerdotal, priestly

2. Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart.
3. (art) Extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.

Translations

Noun

hieratic (plural hieratics)

1. (historical) A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs.

Further reading

• hieratic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• achirite, charitie, hetairic

Romanian

Etymology

From French hiératique, from Latin hieraticus.

Adjective

hieratic m or n (feminine singular hieratic?, masculine plural hieratici, feminine and neuter plural hieratice)

1. hieratic

Declension

English

Etymology

First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek ????????? (d?motikós, “common”), from ??????? (d?mót?s, “commoner”), from ????? (dêmos, “the common people”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?.?m?.t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?.m?.t?k/

Adjective

demotic (not comparable)

1. Of or for the common people.

   Synonyms: colloquial, informal, popular, vernacular

   Antonym: formal
2. Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 B.C.E. 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.

   Synonym: enchorial

   Coordinate term: abnormal hieratic

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

Derived terms

• demoticist

Related terms

• Demotic Greek
• demotist

Translations

Noun

demotic (plural demotics)

1. (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
   • 2010, John C. Wells, accents map

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

Translations

Further reading

• demotic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “demotic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.