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Slav⋅ic

  [slah-vik, slav-ik]
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–noun
1. 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
2. of or pertaining to the Slavs or their languages.
Also, Slavonic.

Origin:
1805–15; Slav + -ic
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Slav·ic   (slä'vĭk)   
adj.  

  1. Of or relating to the Slavs or their languages.

  2. Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes such languages as Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Polish, and is composed of the East Slavic, South Slavic, and West Slavic subdivisions.

n.  The Slavic branch of Indo-European.
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