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Katharevusa

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Noun

1. katharevusa

literary style of Modern Greek containing features borrowed from Koine

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Katharevusa

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noun
a literary style of Modern Greek, derived from the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek and including many archaic features
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Katharevusa

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n.
The puristic, archaizing form of Modern Greek, having morphological and lexical features borrowed from Koine.

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