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slavonic

Sla·von·ic
S s

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [sluh-von-ik]
    • /sləˈvɒn ɪk/
    • /sləˈvɒn.ɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [sluh-von-ik]
    • /sləˈvɒn ɪk/

Definitions of slavonic word

  • abbreviation SLAVONIC Slavonian. 1
  • abbreviation SLAVONIC Slavic. 1
  • adjective slavonic Something that is Slavonic relates to East European languages such as Russian, Czech, and Serbo-Croat, or to the people who speak them. 0
  • noun slavonic 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) 0
  • noun slavonic the unrecorded ancient language from which all of these languages developed 0
  • adjective slavonic of, denoting, or relating to this group of languages 0
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Origin of slavonic

First appearance:

before 1605
One of the 40% oldest English words
1605-15; < New Latin slavonicus, equivalent to Medieval Latin Slavon(ia) + -icus -ic

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Parts of speech for Slavonic

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Slavonic

slavonic popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 73% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

slavonic usage trend in Literature

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Related words

  • 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.

  • old slavic

    Old Church Slavonic.

  • church slavic

    a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.

  • cyrillic

    The Cyrillic alphabet is the alphabet that is used to write some Slavonic languages, such as Russian and Bulgarian.

  • glagolitic

    noting or written in an alphabet, probably invented by St. Cyril in about a.d. 865, formerly used in writing Old Church Slavonic and other Slavic languages: almost completely replaced by Cyrillic starting about the 10th century.

  • hard sign

    the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
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