Koine

See also koine, koiné, and koinè

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κοινός (koine, “shared, common, public, general, ordinary, usual”)

Proper noun

Koine

1. The "common" Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 BCE and 300 CE (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek.

Translations

common Greek language

• Armenian: կոյնե (hy) (koyne) 
• Catalan: koiné (ca) f, grec koiné (ca) m
• Dutch: Koinè

• German: Koine (de) f
• Greek: Ελληνιστική Κοινή (el) (Ellinistikí Koiní) f 
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koiné (nb)

  Nynorsk: koiné (nn)

• Russian: койне (ru) (kojné) n 

See also

Other Greek languages

Ancient Greek Classical Greek Demotic Greek

Katharevousa Modern Greek

External links

• Koine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Koine, grc

Anagrams

• eikon
• enoki