Slavonic

[ sluh-von-ik ]

adjective

Origin of Slavonic

1
1605–15; <New Latin slavonicus, equivalent to Medieval Latin Slavon(ia) + -icus-ic

Other words from Slavonic

  • Sla·von·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words Nearby Slavonic

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British Dictionary definitions for Slavonic

Slavonic

esp US Slavic

/ (sləˈvɒnɪk) /


noun
  1. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into three subbranches: South Slavonic (including Old Church Slavonic, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, etc), East Slavonic (including Ukrainian, Russian, etc), and West Slavonic (including Polish, Czech, Slovak, etc)

  2. the unrecorded ancient language from which all of these languages developed

adjective
  1. of, denoting, or relating to this group of languages

  2. of, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages

Origin of Slavonic

1
C17: from Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia

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