slavic
/ˈslɑːvɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of the Slavs, their cultures, or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.
noun
Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously."
- "It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes."
- "Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos."
Etymology
Etymology tree substrateder.? Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.? Proto-Slavic *slov- Proto-Slavic *-ǫta Proto-Slavic *Slov-? Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Ancient Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor. Medieval Latin Sclāvusbor. Middle English Sclave English Slav Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Slavic From Slav + -ic. Piecewise doublet of slavey.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more Slavic (comparative)
most Slavic (superlative)
Sl. (alternative)