Slavonic

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/sləˈvɒnɪk/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(slə von′ik)


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Sla•von•ic  (slə von′ik),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. Language VarietiesSlavonian.
  2. Language VarietiesSlavic.
  • Neo-Latin slavonicus, equivalent. to Medieval Latin Slavon(ia) + -icus -ic
  • 1605–15
Sla•von′i•cal•ly, adv. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Slavonic /sləˈvɒnɪk/, esp US Slavic n
  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)
 adj
  1. of, denoting, or relating to this group of languages
  2. of, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages
Etymology: 17th Century: from Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia
'Slavonic' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
bare - Belarussian - borzoi - brine - Bulgarian - call - callow - cinder - Cossack - Cyrillic - Czech - Easter - eland - elder - gherkin - Glagolitic - grave - Great Russian - guest - halt - hammer - hap - harm - haulm - he - hemlock - hoar - holly - holt - Macedonian - Polish - robot - rush - Russian - Serbo-Croat - shoot - silver - Slav - Slavic - slave - Slovak - Slovene - soot - sour - sow - speed - spring - stow - thigh - Church Slavic

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