Slavonic

English

     Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language
     Countries where an East Slavic language is the national language
     Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language

Alternative forms

• Sclavonic, Sclavonick

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sləˈvɒ.nɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /sləˈvɑ.nɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒnɪk
• Hyphenation: Sla‧vo‧nic, Sla‧von‧ic

Proper noun

Slavonic

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.)

   East Slavonic (including Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, etc.), and

   West Slavonic (including Polish, Czech, Slovak, etc.)

2. (dated) The unrecorded ancient language from which all of these languages developed.

Synonyms

• (a branch of Indo-European languages):
  • Slavic

• (hypothesized mother tongue of Slavic languages):
  • Proto-Slavic
  • Old Slavonic
  • Common Slavic, Common Slavonic (proscribed)

Translations

unrecorded ancestor of Slavic languages

• Catalan: eslavó (ca), eslavònic (ca)
• French: slavon (fr) m, vieux slave (fr) m, esclavon (fr) m, paléoslave m
• Hungarian: szláv (hu)
• Irish: Slavais f
• Italian: slavonico m
• Polish: język późnoprasłowiański m inan
• Portuguese: eslavo comum m, protoeslavo (pt) m, eslavônico m (Brazil), eslavónico m (Portugal)
• Russian: праславя́нский язы́к (ru) m (praslavjánskij jazýk), общеславя́нский язы́к m (obščeslavjánskij jazýk)
• Sicilian: slavònicu m

Further reading

• ISO 639-5 code sla [1]

Adjective

Slavonic (not comparable)

1. Of, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages, their languages, or cultures.

   Synonym: Slavic

   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:

     Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […] .

2. Of, denoting, or relating to Slavonia and its inhabitants.

   Synonym: Slavic

Translations

Slavic — see Slavic

related to Slavonia

• Catalan: eslavó (ca), eslavònic (ca)
• French: slavon (fr) m
• Hungarian: szláv (hu)
• Irish: Slavónach
• Polish: slawoński (pl)
• Portuguese: eslavônio (Brazil), eslavónio (Portugal), eslavônico (Brazil), eslavónico (Portugal)
• Russian: славо́нский (slavónskij)

Derived terms

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

References

• “Slavonic”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.

Anagrams

• Volscian