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- denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; popular or colloquial（与）通俗语言（有关）的：
a demotic idiom.
通俗习惯用语。
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- relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing（与）现代希腊语（有关）的。比较KATHAREVOUSA.
mass noun
1- ordinary colloquial speech通俗口语。
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- demotic Greek通俗希腊语。
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- demotic Egyptian script通俗埃及文字。
词源
early 19th cent. （in the sense 'relating to the Egyptian demotic'）： from Greek dēmotikos 'popular'， from dēmotēs 'one of the people'， from dēmos 'the people'.