Church Slavonicism

Church Slavicism, Church Slavism

From Church Slavonic +‎ -ism.

Church Slavonicism (plural Church Slavonicisms)

1. A word recorded in the corpus of Old Church Slavonic or some of the later Church Slavonic recensions.
2. (Slavistics) Denoting a word, phrase or linguistic structure borrowed from or formed under the influence of Old Church Slavonic or some later Church Slavonic recension.

   Synonyms: Slavonicism, Church Slavicism, Church Slavism

   • 1935, Rocznik Slawistyczny - Revue slavistique [Slavic Yearbook], volume 45, number 1, G. Gebenther i Spółka, →ISSN, page 14:

     Vitát is in fact expressly recognised as a Church Slavonicism by Preobraženskij, Šanskij and Machek.

   • 2010 [1993], Alan Timberlake, “Russian”, in Bernard Comrie, Greville G. Corbett, editors, The Slavonic Languages, Routledge, →ISBN, section 5.2, page 1070:

     Church Slavonicisms, whether genuine or neologistic, occupy a special layer in the lexicon of Modern Russian.

   • 2019 [1922], Yuri Tynianov, “The Ode as an Oratorical Genre”, in Ainsley Morse, Philip Redko, transl., edited by Ainsley Morse and Philip Redko, Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film, Academic Studies Press, →ISBN, section 2, page 68:

     From a literary standpoint, it is less important that a particular word be a true Church Slavonicism; what is important is how it is colored in the given context.

The term is also commonly used in the contexts of discussing an etymology of a Slavic language word that was not recorded in common speech and was likely to be borrowed from literary (Old) Church Slavonic, where it was originally coined.