Church Slavonicism
Church Slavonicism noun: a word recorded in the corpus of Old Church Slavonic or some of the later Church Slavonic recensions.
Noun
Church Slavonicism (plural Church Slavonicisms)
- A word recorded in the corpus of Old Church Slavonic or some of the later Church Slavonic recensions.
- Denoting a word, phrase or linguistic structure borrowed from or formed under the influence of Old Church Slavonic or some later Church Slavonic recension.
- Vitát is in fact expressly recognised as a Church Slavonicism by Preobraženskij, Šanskij and Machek.1935, Rocznik Slawistyczny - Revue slavistique [Slavic Yearbook], volume 45, number 1, G. Gebenther i Spółka, →ISSN, page 14
- Church Slavonicisms, whether genuine or neologistic, occupy a special layer in the lexicon of Modern Russian.2010 [1993], Alan Timberlake, “Russian”, in Bernard Comrie, Greville G. Corbett, editors, The Slavonic Languages, Routledge, →ISBN, section 5.2, page 1070
- Synonyms:
- Slavonicism, Church Slavicism, Church Slavism
Synonyms of Church Slavonicism
Forms of Church Slavonicism
| plural | Church Slavonicisms |
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Origin of Church Slavonicism
From Church Slavonic + -ism.
Questions about Church Slavonicism
- What does Church Slavonicism mean?
- Church Slavonicism means a word recorded in the corpus of Old Church Slavonic or some of the later Church Slavonic recensions.
- What part of speech is Church Slavonicism?
- Church Slavonicism is a noun.
- What is the plural of Church Slavonicism?
- The plural of Church Slavonicism is Church Slavonicisms.
Words near Church Slavonicism in the dictionary
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