Slavonic

• Sclavonic, Sclavonick

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sləˈvɒ.nɪk/

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

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 Ukrainian, Russian, etc.), and

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

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

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

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

• ISO 639-5 code sla [1]

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

• Church Slavonic
• Old Church Slavonic

• “Slavonic”, in Collins English Dictionary.

• Volscian