Katharevousa

See also: katharévousa

English

Alternative forms

• katharevousa

Etymology

From Greek καθαρεύουσα (katharévousa), feminine of καθαρεύων (katharévon), present participle of Ancient Greek καθαρεύω (kathareúō, “to be clean, pure”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkaθəˈɹɛvuːsə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑθəˈɹɛvusɑ/, /ˌkɑθəˈɹɛvəsɑ/
• Hyphenation: Ka‧tha‧re‧vou‧sa

Proper noun

Katharevousa

1. 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.

Synonyms

• Katharevousa Greek, katharevousa Greek

Hypernyms

• Modern Greek
• New Greek

Coordinate terms

Coordinate terms

• Ancient Greek
• Classical Greek
• Demotic Greek
• Koine

 

Translations

purist variant of Modern Greek

• Afrikaans: Katharewoesa (af)
• Armenian: կաթարևուսա (katʿarewusa)
• Esperanto: katarevuso
• Finnish: katharévousa
• French: katharévousa (fr) f
• German: Kathareuusa f, Katharevusa f, Katharevousa (de) f
• Greek: καθαρεύουσα (el) f (katharévousa), Καθαρεύουσα f (Katharévousa)
• Hungarian: katharévusza
• Icelandic: kaþarevúsa (is) f
• Italian: katharevousa f
• Japanese: カサレヴサ (Kasarevusa)

• Korean: 카타레부사 (Katarebusa)
• Polish: katharewusa (pl) f
• Portuguese: catarévussa (pt) m or f, grego catarévussa (pt) m
• Russian: кафаре́вуса (ru) f (kafarévusa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: катарѐуса f

  Roman: katarèusa (sh) f

• Spanish: katharévousa f, kazarévusa f, cazarévusa f
• Turkish: Katarevusa (tr)
• Ukrainian: кафаре́вуса f (kafarévusa), катаре́вуса f (katarévusa)

See also

• Category of Katharevousa words