Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Modern Greek.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to the vernacular language of modern Greece, or to those who use it.
- noun The vernacular language of modern Greece, the popular modern form of ancient Greek, written in the ancient character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun obsolete The modern
Greek language. - adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to modern
Greece , its inhabitants, or its language.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language
- noun the modern Greek vernacular
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Raymond had a confused remembrance that he had seen such a form before; he walked across the room; she did not raise her eyes, merely asking in Romaic, who is there?
I.7 1826
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Albanian dialect of the Romaic to approximate nearest to the Hellenic; for the Albanians speak a Romaic as notoriously corrupt as the Scotch of
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Its prophets repudiated the 'Romaic' name, with its associations of ignorance and oppression, and taught their pupils to think of themselves as
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906
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Tales, quotes from popular Italian, Sicilian and Romaic stories incidents identical with those in Prince Ahmad, Aladdin,
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“Lázuward”; prob. the origin of our “azure,” through the Romaic and the Ital. azzurro; and, more evidently still, of lapis lazuli, for which do not see the Dictionaries.
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He sat on the edge of the table and spoke in his usual mixture of colloquial Romaic and British jargon, and it was only at this point that Corelli began to wonder how it was that Pelagia and the doctor could possibly have made the acquaintance of a British Liaison Officer.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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In Romaic the captain said, 'From your lips to the ear of God,' and for the last time he held Pelagia.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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Lithuanian; of Latin and Greek, including Romaic; of Berber, the
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Accordingly she brought up Antonia to speak Italian, so that the latter learned Romaic Greek from Drosoula and never would speak Katharevousa, and she bought herself a wireless from someone who was happy to part with it for next to nothing, because something had gone wrong with its tuning mechanism and it would only pick up stations in Italy.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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He learnt Romaic, he compiled the notes to the second canto of _Childe Harold_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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