Slavic

• (abbreviation): Sl.

From Slav + -ic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈslævɪk/, /ˈslɑːvɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ævɪk, -ɑːvɪk

Slavic (comparative more Slavic, superlative most Slavic)

1. Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.
   • 1971, Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis, “Prelude: Death of a Regime . . . June–December 1967”, in Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution, Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, section I (A Czechoslovakian Spring: Notes on Eight Months of Democratic Socialism), page 20:

     Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.

• Slav
• Slavonic
• Sclavonic

• non-Slavic

• Slavdom, Slavia, Slavism, Slavistics, Pan-Slavic, Interslavic

Slavic (uncountable)

1. Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.

   It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.

• Slavonic, Sclavonic

• Church Slavic, Church Slavonic
  • Old Church Slavic, Old Church Slavonic
• East Slavic, East Slavonic
  • Old East Slavic, Old East Slavonic
  • Great Russian = Russian = Russ
  • Little Russian = Ukrainian
  • White Russian = Belarusian
• South Slavic, South Slavonic
  • Bulgarian
  • Serbo-Croatian
  • Slovenian, Slovene
• West Slavic, West Slavonic
  • Czech
  • Kashubian
  • Slovak
  • Sorbian

• cavils, clavis