Slavic

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): Sl.

Etymology

From Slav + -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɑːvɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːvɪk

Adjective

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.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• cavils, clavis