Ruthenian
Americanadjective
noun
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one of the Ruthenian people.
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the dialect of Ukrainian spoken in Ruthenia.
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a member of a former Orthodox religious group that entered into communion with the Roman Catholic Church in 1596 and became the “Uniate Church of the Little Russians.”
adjective
noun
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a dialect of Ukrainian
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a native or inhabitant of Ruthenia
Etymology
Origin of Ruthenian
First recorded in 1840–50; Rutheni(a) + -an
Example Sentences
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In its eastern and southeastern regions, the union’s dominant languages were Polish and Ruthenian, the predecessor to modern-day Ukrainian and Belarusian.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
Warhol’s parents both spoke Ruthenian, and the artist understood it enough to use it in 1980, when he met Pope John Paul II, who knew the language from his upbringing in southern Poland.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2018
Traditional dress is embroidered with distinctive diamond shapes in earthy tones while their dialect is a swirl of old Ruthenian, Romanian, Magyar, and their own esoteric expressions.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2016
Although Ruthenians outside the U.S. are permitted to ordain married men as priests, Elko ignored clerics' complaints and stuck to the letter of a papal decree imposing celibacy on American Ruthenian priests.
From Time Magazine Archive
The present attempt to popularize these Cossack stories is, I believe, the first translation ever made from Ruthenian into English.
From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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