Slavonic

Slavonic
I. adjective Etymology: New Latin slavonicus, from Medieval Latin Sclavonia, Slavonia, the Slavic-speaking countries, from Sclavus Slavic Date: circa 1645 Slavic II. noun Date: 1668 1. Slavic 2. old church slavonic

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