dienvidslāvs

From dienvidi (“south”) +‎ slāvs (“Slav”), a calque of Serbo-Croatian Југославија (Jugoslavija), from the words југ (jug, “south”) and Славен, Словен (slaven, sloven, “Slav”).

dienvidslāvs m (1st declension, feminine form: dienvidslāviete)

1. a (male) southern Slav, a member of one of the southern Slavic peoples (Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Bulgarians)
2. (genitive plural) south Slavic, pertaining to the south Slavic peoples
3. (dated sense, before 1992) a (male) citizen of the former Yugoslavia
4. (dated sense, before 1992, genitive plural) Yugoslav, Yugoslavian (pertaining to Yugoslavia and its peoples)

• Dienvidslāvija
• dienvidslāvisks