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Slavic

//ˈslɑːvɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.

    "Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to Slavic languages wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages. uncountable

    "It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes."

  2. 2
    a branch of the Indo-European family of languages wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Slav + -ic.

Etymology 2

From Slav + -ic.

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