koine
COMMON DIALECT OF GREEK SPOKEN AND WRITTEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Hellenistic Koine; Hellenistic Greek; Alexandrian dialect; Koine Greek language; Biblical Greek; New Testament Greek; Koinē Greek; Common Greek; Common greek; Koine; Koiné Greek; Κοινῆς Ελληνικῆς; Ecclesiastical Greek; Koine greek; Koinḗ Greek; Κοινή; Common Attic; Patristic Greek; Koine Greek dialect; Biblical Greek language; Hellenistic Greek language; Koinē Greek language; Patristic Greek language; Coene Greek
['k??ni:]
¦ noun
1. the common language of the Greeks from the close of the classical period to the Byzantine era.
2. a lingua franca.
Origin
C19: from Gk koine (dialektos) 'common (language)'.