Katharevousa

See also: katharévousa

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Katharevousa

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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/

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• Hyphenation: Ka‧tha‧re‧vou‧sa

Proper noun

Katharevousa

1. 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.

   Coordinate terms: Classical Greek, Demotic Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine, purist Greek

   • 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 87:

     ‘You read the poetry of Cavafy, I have taught you to speak Katharevousa and Italian.’

   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 345:

     A year later, after much deliberation and public discussion, an act of parliament established that demotic Greek was to replace the hybrid katharevousa as the official language of education – and therefore, in practice, in most walks of life (exceptions are the Church and law).

Holonyms

• Modern Greek

Translations

purist variant of Modern Greek

Afrikaans: Katharewoesa (af) Armenian: կաթարևուսա (katʻarewusa) Chinese: Mandarin: 純正希臘語 / 纯正希腊语 (zh) (Chúnzhèng Xīlàyǔ) 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 (it) f Japanese: カサレヴサ (ja) (Kasarevusa) Korean: 카타레부사 (Katarebusa) Mon: ဇြုၚ်ဂရေတ် 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