Definitions for Demotic

Demotic de·mot·ic

Spelling: [dih-mot-ik]
IPA: /dɪˈmɒt ɪk/

Demotic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in Demotic (cdeimot).

Definitions for Demotic

noun

  1. demotic script.
  2. (initial capital letter). Also called Romaic. the Modern Greek vernacular (distinguished from Katharevusa).

adjective

  1. of or relating to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language; vernacular:
  2. of or relating to the common people; popular.
  3. of, relating to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 b.c. and a.d. 500.

Origin of Demotic

1815-25; Greek dēmotikós popular, plebeian, equivalent to dēmót(ēs) a plebeian (derivative of dêmos; see demo-) + -ikos -ic

Examples for Demotic

Anything but demotic is Amar Bhide's A Call For Judgment, subtitled "Sensible Finance For A Dynamic Economy."

In demotic, if I understand aright, the vowels are not written and the consonants often do not mean what they seem to mean.

Out of this fact grew the larger significance of the demotic writing as contrasted with the hieratic or priestly writing.

No one any longer wrote in the hieroglyphic, hieratic, or demotic scripts; in a word, the hieroglyphic writing was forgotten.

You will remember how complex were the Egyptian styles of writing—both hieroglyphic and demotic.

What I expected was a reply in kind, an hieratic acceptance or a demotic refusal; either one would be good practice for Monny.

An impatient lower court forced her to change it to the demotic “Gregorio,” noting that Venerdi was “a ridiculous name.”

The Hieratic, like the demotic, is always written from right to left.

It is a stel of black basalt, bearing an inscription in Hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek.

The demotic self-deprecation barely masks a vast ambition, which is a kind of deception in itself, or an artifice.

Word Value for Demotic
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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