
wordlover-2016-04-19
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Today's word is koine, spelled K-O-I-N-E.
Koine is a noun that means the Greek language commonly spoken and written in eastern Mediterranean countries in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. It can also mean a dialect or language of a region that has become the common or standard language of a larger area. Here is the word used in a sentence by Angela Spencer from ArkansasOnline.com.
"Hedrick has taken 30 hours of ancient languages - rendering him proficient in koine Greek, Aramaic and ancient Hebrew - and he tutored students in those subjects while in Greece."
Koine, which means "common" or "shared" in Greek, was the language spoken in the eastern Mediterranean countries from the 4th century B.C.E. until the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian in the mid-6th century. In linguistics, the word koine is applied to a language developed from contact between dialects of the same language over a large region. Basically, a koine adopts those grammatical and lexical elements from the dialects of the region that are easily recognized by most area speakers and dispenses with those that are not.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski. |