Civic vs Demotic - What's the difference?
civic | demotic |
Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.
Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.
Of or for the common people.
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Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
(linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
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As adjectives the difference between civic and demotic
is that civic is civic while demotic is of or for the common people.As a noun demotic is
(linguistics) language as spoken or written by the common people.civic
English
(wikipedia civic)Adjective
(en adjective)- Thousands of people came to the Civic''' Center to show off their '''civic pride.
- civic duty
Derived terms
* civic centre * civics * civic-mindeddemotic
English
(wikipedia demotic)Adjective
(-)- demotic script is a simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphs used in ancient Egypt.
- demotic Greek
Synonyms
* (of the vulgar form of hieratic writing) enchorialNoun
(en noun)accents map
- Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like .