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

"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

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

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

The brethren reached Smyrna at the opening of the year 1820, and took lodgings in a Swiss family, where French, Italian, Modern Greek, and some Turkish were spoken, but no English.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Anderson, Rufus