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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
demotic is a noun and adjective meaning "a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script
“Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek”
the modern Greek vernacular
of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use
of or for the common people
“demotic entertainments”
“demotic speech”
“a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for demotic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.