‘You read the poetry of Cavafy, I have taught you to speak Katharevousa and Italian.’
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Katharevousa
//ˌkɑθəˈɹɛvusɑ//
Synonyms for "katharevousa"
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5 entriesholonym
1 entriespart of
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6 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 23 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- Katharewoesa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Armenian
1 entries- կաթարևուսա name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 純正希臘語 /纯正希腊语 name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Esperanto
1 entries- katarevuso name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Finnish
1 entries- katharévousa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
French
1 entries- katharévousa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Georgian
1 entries- კათარევუსა name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
German
3 entries- Kathareuusa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
- Katharevousa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
- Katharevusa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Greek
2 entries- Καθαρεύουσα name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
- καθαρεύουσα name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Hindi
1 entries- काथारेवुसा name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Hungarian
1 entries- katharévusza name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Icelandic
1 entries- kaþarevúsa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Italian
1 entries- katharevousa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Japanese
1 entries- カサレヴサ name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Korean
1 entries- 카타레부사 name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Mon
1 entries- ဇြုၚ်ဂရေတ် name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Polish
1 entries- katharewusa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Portuguese
2 entries- catarévussa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
- grego catarévussa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Russian
1 entries- кафаре́вуса name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- katarèusa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
- катарѐуса name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Spanish
3 entries- cazarévusa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
- katharévousa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
- kazarévusa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Turkish
1 entries- Katarevusa name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Ukrainian
2 entries- катаре́вуса name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
- кафаре́вуса name (purist variant of Modern Greek)
Sample sentences
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A year later, after much deliberation and public discussion, an act of parliament established that demotic Greek was to replace the hybrid katharevousa as the official language of education – and therefore, in practice, in most walks of life (exceptions are the Church and law).
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