Familiar vs Demotic - What's the difference?

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Familiar is a related term of demotic.

As adjectives the difference between familiar and demotic

is that familiar is familial while demotic is of or for the common people.

As a noun demotic is

(linguistics) language as spoken or written by the common people.

familiar

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Known to one.

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Acquainted.

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Intimate or friendly.

* Shakespeare

Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar.

Inappropriately intimate or friendly.

(Camden)

Of or pertaining to a family; familial.

* Byron

familiar feuds

Synonyms

* (acquainted) acquainted * close, friendly, intimate, personal * (inappropriately intimate or friendly) cheeky, fresh, impudent

Antonyms

* (known to one) unfamiliar, unknown * (acquainted) unacquainted * (intimate) cold, cool, distant, impersonal, standoffish, unfriendly

Derived terms

* overfamiliar * familiarity * familiarly

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A member of one's family or household.

(obsolete) A close friend.

*, II.i.4.2:

a friend of mine, that finding a receipt in Brassavola, would needs take hellebore in substance, and try it on his own person; but had not some of his familiars come to visit him by chance, he had by his indiscretion hazarded himself; many such I have observed.

An attendant spirit, often in animal form.

The witch’s familiar was a black cat.

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demotic

English

(wikipedia demotic)

Adjective

(-)

Of or for the common people.

Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.

demotic script is a simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphs used in ancient Egypt.

Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.

demotic Greek

Synonyms

* (of the vulgar form of hieratic writing) enchorial

Noun

(en noun)

(linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.

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Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like .

Derived terms

* demotist