Etymology

demotist

de·mo·tist
D2E1M3O1T1I1S1T1

Today it means: One versed in the ancient Egyptian demotic writing. Full definition →

Ancient Greek δημοτικός
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromδημοτικός“common”
  2. English todaydemotist

From Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekδημοτικός all →

demotic

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.