Slavonic
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7.4
- adjective
- /sləˈvɑnɪk/
:
eslavo
- In the twenties, my grandfather published his thesis about Tolstoy, worked as an editor for the New York Times, and taught Slavonic languages at Columbia.
- Slavonic Dances
- Slavonic languages
Examples
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And this language, Church Slavonic, slowly becomes a written language which is serving not just the church, but also the state.
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Cyril and Methodius are renowned for creating the first written form of the Slavonic languages.
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Today we are citizens of different Slavonic countries: Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
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So Cyril and Methodius die, but Church Slavonic goes on, the written language goes on.
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The Church's saints developed for centuries with a Mass not in the vernacular; this is true of Latin, Slavonic, Greek, or whatever.
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Together with local Wends, Slavonic Pomeranians, and Saxons, they lived in multicultural harmony.
Academic text (2003) -
1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its premiere performance in Moscow.
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Instead, they’re proudly Slavonic.
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Some of Dvork's Slavonic Dances have clear tempo shifts, and it seems that some of the Czech conductors are greater risk takers in making these contrasts.
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When the musicians are ready, Abu el-Aid announces the program for the day, beginning with a piece they've only just started rehearsing, Dvorak's Slavonic Dance in G minor.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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6.1
About languages or people from Eastern Europe who belong to the same language group
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5.6
About the people, languages, and culture of eastern Europe and Russia
Compounds
- Specialized
A group of related languages including Slavic languages like Russian and Baltic languages like Lithuanian
- Literature
An early Slavic language used in the ninth century to translate the Bible and other church texts
- Specialized
A group of related languages spoken in Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, including Russian, Polish and Czech
Surface Forms
Morphology
Slavonic = Slav (transparent) = Slav + onic
Formed from 'Slav' plus an adjectival ending; the relation to Slavic languages/peoples is straightforward.
Etymology
Slavonic comes from the name Slav, the people of Eastern Europe, and one popular idea connects Slav with slovo meaning 'word', meaning people who 'share a language'. So, Slavonic describes something that belongs to the Slavs or to their languages, for example old church texts in Old Slavonic.