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Slavic

[slah-vik, slav-ik]

noun

a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian), West Slavic (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian), and South Slavic (Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene). Abbr.: Slav

adjective

of or pertaining to the Slavs or their languages.

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Also, Slavonic.

Origin:
1805–15; Slav + -ic

Related forms

an·ti-Slav·ic, adjective, noun

non-Slav·ic, adjective

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Slavic (ˈslɑːvɪk)

—n, —*adj*
	another word (esp US) for Slavonic

Slavonic or esp (US) Slavic (sləˈvɒnɪk)

—n
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

—*adj*
3.	of, denoting, or relating to this group of languages
4.	of, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages

[C17: from Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia]

Slavic or esp (US) Slavic

—n

—*adj*

[C17: from Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia]

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