demotic 的 2 个定义
- of or relating to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language; vernacular: a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.
- of or relating to the common people; popular.
- of, relating to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 b.c. and a.d. 500.
- demotic script.
- Also called Romaic. the Modern Greek vernacular.
demotic 近义词
等同于 colloquial
更多demotic例句
- Anything but demotic is Amar Bhide's A Call For Judgment, subtitled "Sensible Finance For A Dynamic Economy."
- The demotic self-deprecation barely masks a vast ambition, which is a kind of deception in itself, or an artifice.
- An impatient lower court forced her to change it to the demotic “Gregorio,” noting that Venerdi was “a ridiculous name.”
- In the more cursive or Hieratic writing the horned serpent appears as ; in the later Demotic as and .
- They bore numerous inscriptions in hieroglyphics and the demotic character, wherefrom the clue was obtained as to their identity.
- Of these demotic fragments a large quantity had been sent to the British Museum.
- On another very marvellous narrative on a papyrus in the demotic character, see Brugsch, loc.
- To the Greek characters were added six taken from the Demotic in order to express sounds peculiar to the Egyptian language.