Demotic

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Adjective, Noun
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de=mot=ic

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Demotic has 2 senses

Adjective Demotic has 2 senses

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Demotic, n. & adj.
--n.
1 the popular colloquial form of a language.
2 a popular simplified form of ancient Egyptian writing (cf. HIERATIC).
--adj.
1 (esp. of language) popular, colloquial, or vulgar.
2 of or concerning the ancient Egyptian or modern Greek demotic.

Etymology
Gk demotikos f. demotes one of the people (demos)

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