Modern Greek

American  

noun

1. the Greek language since c1500. ModGk, Mod. Gk.

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Modern Greek British  

noun

1. the Greek language since about 1453 _ad (the fall of Byzantium) Compare Demotic Katharevusa

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Etymology

Origin of Modern Greek

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

So speakers of Modern Greek would say I want that I go instead of I want to go.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

"Essentially this analysis unsettles the claim that Modern Greek is an isolate language."

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

"Romeyka is a sister, rather than a daughter, of Modern Greek," said Sitaridou, a Fellow of Queens' College and Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics in Cambridge's Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

Then he plucked a slim paperback off a nearby shelf—“A Modern Greek Reader for Beginners,” by J. T. Pring—bent over it till his eyes were inches from the page, and started to translate.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

Thomas Hope, 1770-1831: an Amsterdam merchant, who afterwards resided in London, and who illustrated the progress of knowledge concerning the East by his work entitled, Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Modern Greek.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry