koiné
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English
Noun
koiné (plural koinés)
- Alternative spelling of koine
Anagrams
Catalan
Noun
koiné f (plural koinés)
- koine (a lingua franca)
Noun
koiné f (uncountable)
- Koine (language)
Synonyms
Czech
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ), feminine form of κοινός (koinós, “common, general”).
Pronunciation
Noun
koiné f (indeclinable)
- (historical) Koine (common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire, and the early Byzantine Empire)
- Coordinate terms: novořečtina, starořečtina
Further reading
- “koiné”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “koiné”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Noun
koiné f or m (plural koinés)
- (linguistics) koine (regional language that becomes standard over time)
- (uncountable) Koine (the common Greek language during late antiquity)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ), feminine form of κοινός (koinós, “common, general”).
Pronunciation
Noun
koiné f (plural koinés)
- koine (form of language resulting from dialect-levelling)
- Koine (variety of the Greek language used in the Hellenistic period)
Further reading
- “koiné”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28