koiné

koiné (plural koinés)

1. Alternative spelling of koine.

• Kenio-, eikon, enoki

koiné f (plural koinés)

1. koine (a lingua franca)

koiné f (uncountable)

1. Koine (language)

• grec koiné m

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ), feminine form of κοινός (koinós, “common, general”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoɪnɛː]
• Hyphenation: ko‧i‧né

koiné f (indeclinable)

1. (historical) Koine (common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire, and the early Byzantine Empire)

   Coordinate terms: novořečtina, starořečtina

• “koiné”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “koiné”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• koine

koiné f or m (plural koinés)

1. (linguistics) koine (regional language that becomes standard over time)
2. (uncountable) Koine (the common Greek language during late antiquity)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ), feminine form of κοινός (koinós, “common, general”).

• IPA^(key): /koiˈne/ [koi̯ˈne]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: koi‧né

koiné f (plural koinés)

1. koine (form of language resulting from dialect-levelling)
2. Koine (variety of the Greek language used in the Hellenistic period)

• “koiné”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024