church slavonicism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A word recorded in the corpus of Old Church Slavonic or some of the later Church Slavonic recensions.
noun
Denoting a word, phrase or linguistic structure borrowed from or formed under the influence of Old Church Slavonic or some later Church Slavonic recension.
Example Sentences
- "Vitát is in fact expressly recognised as a Church Slavonicism by Preobraženskij, Šanskij and Machek."
- "Church Slavonicisms, whether genuine or neologistic, occupy a special layer in the lexicon of Modern Russian."
- "From a literary standpoint, it is less important that a particular word be a true Church Slavonicism; what is important is how it is colored in the given context."
Etymology
From Church Slavonic + -ism.