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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Slavonic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /sləˈvɒ.nɪk/ (UK)
  • /sləˈvɑ.nɪk/ (US)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia, Sclavonia.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages, their languages, or cultures.
    • Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […]. 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:
  2. (not-comparable) Of, denoting, or relating to Slavonia and its inhabitants.

Forms

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Sclavonick alternative lexicographic
Sclavonic alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

Slavonicize · Old Church Slavonic · Panslavonic · Slavonicism · Slavonically · Church Slavonic · Slavonicity

Synonyms

Slavic · Slavic

Translations (11)

ca eslavó (related to Slavonia) · ca eslavònic (related to Slavonia) · ru славо́нский (related to Slavonia) · fr slavon (related to Slavonia) · pt eslavônico (related to Slavonia) · pt eslavónio (related to Slavonia) · pl slawoński (related to Slavonia) · ga Slavónach (related to Slavonia) · pt eslavônio (related to Slavonia) · pt eslavónico (related to Slavonia) · hu szláv (related to Slavonia)

Slavonic en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /sləˈvɒ.nɪk/ (UK)
  • /sləˈvɑ.nɪk/ (US)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia, Sclavonia.

Meanings

  1. (dated) A branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into three subbranches
    • South Slavonic (including Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.)
    • West Slavonic (including Polish, Czech, Slovak, etc.)
    • East Slavonic (including Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, etc.), and
  2. (dated) The unrecorded ancient language from which all of these languages developed.

Forms

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Sclavonic alternative lexicographic
Sclavonick alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

Slavic (a branch of Indo-European languages) · Common Slavonic (hypothesized mother tongue of Slavic languages) · Proto-Slavic (hypothesized mother tongue of Slavic languages) · Old Slavonic (hypothesized mother tongue of Slavic languages) · Common Slavic (hypothesized mother tongue of Slavic languages)

Translations (17)

pt eslavônico (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · ca eslavònic (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · pt protoeslavo (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · ga Slavais (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · it slavonico (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · pt eslavo comum (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · scn slavònicu (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · fr vieux slave (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · ca eslavó (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · pl język późnoprasłowiański (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · fr paléoslave (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · hu szláv (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · ru общеславя́нский язы́к (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · fr esclavon (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · ru праславя́нский язы́к (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · pt eslavónico (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages) · fr slavon (unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages)