Crossword clues for koine
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
common literary dialect of Greek in Roman and early medieval period, 1903, from feminine singular of Greek koinos "common, ordinary" (see coeno-). Used earlier as a Greek word in English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A lingua franca. 2 A regional language that becomes standard over time.
Wikipedia
The literal meaning of the Greek word (koinḗ) is "common". It may refer to:
- Koine Greek, the "common" dialect of Greek used in Hellenistic and Roman antiquity
- Koiné language, a supra-regional form of any language
- Standard Modern Greek, sometimes called "modern Koiné"
- Yoruba koiné, also called Standard Yoruba
Usage examples of "koine".
I translated this into the Koine dialect of Greek, the marketplace lingua franca understood throughout the Levant.
You speak the koine of the Hellenes, though only the very eldest remembered enough to teach.
Hellenish koine in a sonorous voice that never rose to a shout and yet carried like rolling thunder.
Mediator listened to the recording Victoria had made, the notice in trade Koine that the ship was salvage but that Medina Alliance would pay well for Jennifer and Terry.
The Mediator listened to the recording Victoria had made, the notice in trade Koine that the ship was salvage but that Medina Alliance would pay well for Jennifer and Terry.
By the time of the New Testament, the koine had become the lingua franca of the Middle East, replacing Aramaic which had previously supplanted Akkadian (I know these things because I am a professional writer and it is essential that I possess a scholarly knowledge about languages).