| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·mot·ic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -m t k |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of or relating to the common people; popular: demotic speech; demotic entertainments. 2. Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing. 3. Demotic Of or relating to a form of modern Greek based on colloquial use. | | NOUN: | Demotic Greek. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek d motikos, from dmots, a commoner, from dmos, people. See d - in Appendix I.
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