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Slavonic

[sluh-von-ik]
adjective
  1. Slavonian.
  2. Slavic.
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Origin of Slavonic

1605–15; < New Latin slavonicus, equivalent to Medieval Latin Slavon(ia) + -icus -ic
Related formsSla·von·i·cal·ly, adverb
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Historical Examples of slavonic

  • Puritan to the core, he yet had proved true to his Slavonic birthright.

    The Dominant Strain

    Anna Chapin Ray

  • They came as conquerors, but in time were absorbed in the more stable Slavonic type.

    Bulgaria

    Frank Fox

  • Kastorsky, in his “Slavonic Mythology,” p. 138, starts a theory of his own.

    Russian Fairy Tales

    W. R. S. Ralston

  • Troyan is also the name of a mythical king who often figures in Slavonic legends.

    Russian Fairy Tales

    W. R. S. Ralston

  • They sprang from the old Slavonic stock, and the Slavonic is very like the Keltic in nature.

British Dictionary definitions for slavonic

Slavonic

esp US Slavic

noun
  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)
  2. the unrecorded ancient language from which all of these languages developed
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adjective
  1. of, denoting, or relating to this group of languages
  2. of, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages
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Word Origin for Slavonic

C17: from Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia
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