old church slavonic

old church Sla·von·ic

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- US Pronunciation
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- UK Pronunciation
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- [ohld church sluh-von-ik]
- /oʊld tʃɜrtʃ sləˈvɒn ɪk/
- /əʊld tʃɜːtʃ sləˈvɒn.ɪk/

Definitions of old church slavonic words

noun old church slavonic the oldest attested Slavic language, an ecclesiastical language written first by Cyril and Methodius in a Bible translation of the 9th century and continued in use for about two centuries. It represents the South Slavic, Bulgarian dialect of 9th-century Salonika with considerable addition of other South and West Slavic elements. Abbreviation: OCS. 1
noun old church slavonic the oldest recorded Slavonic language: the form of Old Slavonic into which the Bible was translated in the ninth century, preserved as a liturgical language of various Orthodox Churches: belonging to the South Slavonic subbranch of languages 0
noun old church slavonic the South Slavic language used in the 9th-cent. Bible translation by Saint Cyril and his brother, Saint Methodius, and still used as a liturgical language (now called Church Slavonic) by Orthodox Slavs but extinct as a vernacular 0

before 1875

One of the 25% newest English words

First recorded in 1875-80

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This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 1% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.

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