Old Slavonic

British  

noun

1. the South Slavonic language up to about 1400: the language of the Macedonian Slavs that developed into Serbo-Croat and Bulgarian See also Old Church Slavonic

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Example Sentences

He also composed his 1,895-page annotated translation of ‘Eugene Onegin,’ as well as an annotated translation of the Old Slavonic epic ‘The Song of Igor’s Campaign.’

From Washington Post • May 27, 2015

In “Svyati,” a setting of Russian Orthodox liturgy sung in Old Slavonic, the foremost voice was that of Mr. Rath’s cello, sounding a wordless paean atop choral lines that rose and fell with pious sobriety.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2012

Krishna, the elder, was engrossed in the Bhagavad-Gita; Kikimora, his younger sister, was muttering an incantation in Old Slavonic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ruthenian Catholics, for example, use a Byzantine liturgy identical to that followed by Eastern Orthodox Christians who are not in union with Rome, and which is traditionally celebrated in Hungarian, Greek or Old Slavonic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Samt, velvet, is in medieval Latin hexamitus, six-thread; this is Byzantine Gk. ἑξάμιτον, whence also Old Slavonic aksamitu.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest