koine
英 ['kɒɪniː]
美
- n. 以阿提喀方言为主的希腊共通语
英英释义
- 1. a common language used by speakers of different languages;
- "Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times"
英文词源
- koine (n.)
- 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.