demotic
adjective
[ dɪˈmɒtɪk ]
• denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial.
• "a demotic idiom"
Similar:
popular,
vernacular,
colloquial,
idiomatic,
vulgar,
common,
informal,
everyday,
non-literary,
unofficial,
slangy,
enchorial,
demotic
noun
• ordinary colloquial speech.
• "he blinked in mild surprise at this uncharacteristic leap into the demotic"
Origin:
early 19th century (in the sense ‘relating to the Egyptian demotic’): from Greek dēmotikos ‘popular’, from dēmotēs ‘one of the people’, from dēmos ‘the people’.
