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KATHAREVOUSA
Etymology
Proper noun
Katharevousa
A learned, archaising form of Modern Greek, the artificial Greek language based on Classical Greek, used for formal and official purposes, primarily written but not used for conversation. Legally displaced in Greece in 1976 by Demotic Greek.
Hypernyms
• Modern Greek
• New Greek
Coordinate terms
(Coordinate terms):
• Classical Greek
• Demotic Greek
• Ancient Greek
• Koine
Source: Wiktionary
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(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”
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