Katharevousa

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A learned, archaising form of Modern Greek, based on Classical Greek and used for formal and official purposes; it was legally displaced as the official language of Greece in 1976 by Demotic Greek.

Related

Similar words

• Katharevousa [[Greek]], katharevousa [[Greek]]

Broader meaning words

• Modern Greek
• New Greek

Origin

• From Greek καθαρεύουσα, feminine of καθαρεύων, present participle of Ancient Greek καθαρεύω ("to be clean, pure").