- Old Church Slavonic
- noun see Old Church Slavic
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Old Church Slavonic
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Old Church Slavonic — словѣньскъ ѩзꙑкъ slověnĭskŭ językŭ Spoken in formerly in Slavic areas, under the influence of Byzantium (both Catholic and Orthodox) Region Eastern Europe Era … Wikipedia
Old Church Slavonic — n. the South Slavic language used in the 9th cent. Bible translation by Saint Cyril and his brother, Saint Methodius, and still used as a liturgical language (now called Church Slavonic) by Orthodox Slavs but extinct as a vernacular: also called… … English World dictionary
Old Church Slavonic — noun the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century • Syn: ↑Old Church Slavic, ↑Church Slavic, ↑Old Bulgarian • Hypernyms: ↑Slavic, ↑Slavic language, ↑Slavonic, ↑Slavonic language … Useful english dictionary
Old Church Slavonic in Romania — Old Church Slavonic was the main language used for liturgical and administrative purposes by the Romanians until the 18th century, being still used in the Orthodox Church until mid 19th century. Characteristics The language, while based on Old… … Wikipedia
Old Church Slavonic grammar — Old Church Slavonic is an inflectional language with moderately complex verbal and nominal systems. Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Morphophonemic alternations 2 Morphology 2.1 Nouns … Wikipedia
Old Church Slavonic — Old′ Church′ Slavon′ic (or Slav′ic) n. peo the oldest attested Slavic language, extant in a group of manuscripts written before c1100, largely scripture and liturgical translations that were the outcome of Cyril and Methodius s mission to the… … From formal English to slang
Old Church Slavonic Institute — The Old Church Slavonic Institute (Croatian: Staroslavenski institut) is Croatian public institute founded in 1952 by the state for the purpose of scientific research on the language, literature and paleography of the mediaeval literary heritage… … Wikipedia
Old Church Slavonic language — or Old Church Slavic language Oldest attested Slavic language, known from a small corpus of 10th or 11th century manuscripts, most written in the Glagolitic alphabet (see Cyrillic alphabet). The Old Church Slavonic documents, all translations… … Universalium
Old Church Slavonic — the oldest attested Slavic language, an ecclesiastical language written first by Cyril and Methodius in a Bible translation of the 9th century and continued in use for about two centuries. It represents the South Slavic, Bulgarian dialect of 9th… … Universalium
Old Church Slavonic — noun The first literary and liturgical Slavic language. Syn: Old Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic, Old Macedonian, Old Slavic, Old Slavonic … Wiktionary
Old Church Slavonic — noun the extinct language (South Slavic) preserved in religious texts of the Russian Orthodox Church. Also, Old Church Slavic …
