Katharevusa (redirected from Katharevousa)

Ka·tha·rev·u·sa  (käthä-rv-sä)

n.

The puristic, archaizing form of Modern Greek, having morphological and lexical features borrowed from Koine.

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[Modern Greek kathareuousa, from Greek, feminine present participle of kathareuein, to be pure, from katharos, pure.]

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Katharevusa, Katharevousa [ˌkɑːθəˈrɛvəˌsɑː]

n

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a literary style of Modern Greek, derived from the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek and including many archaic features Compare Demotic

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Noun

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Katharevusa - literary style of Modern Greek containing features borrowed from Koine Modern Greek, New Greek - the Greek language as spoken and written today