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hieroglyph
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ha?????l?f/
Noun
hieroglyph (plural hieroglyphs)
- An element of an ideographic (hieroglyphic) writing system.
- (informal) Any obscure or baffling symbol.
Derived terms
- hieroglyphic
Translations
Verb
hieroglyph (third-person singular simple present hieroglyphs, present participle hieroglyphing, simple past and past participle hieroglyphed)
- To represent by hieroglyphs.
References
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demotic
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)
- Of or for the common people.
- Synonyms: colloquial, informal, popular, vernacular
- Antonym: formal
- 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
- 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)
- (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.
- 2010, John C. Wells, accents map
Translations
Further reading
- demotic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “demotic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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