Cyrillic

Cyrillic
adjective Etymology: Saint Cyril, reputed inventor of the Cyrillic alphabet Date: 1813 of, relating to, or constituting an alphabet used for writing Old Church Slavic and for Russian and a number of other languages of eastern Europe and Asia

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  • Æ (Cyrillic) — Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading=Cyrillic ligature AE uuc=04D4|ulc=04D5Unicode|Ӕ Unicode|ӕ is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now used in Ossetic to represent the near open front unrounded vowel IPA|/æ/. Ossetic earlier used the Latin alphabet …   Wikipedia

  • Cyrillic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ denoting the alphabet used for Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and some other Slavic languages, ultimately derived from Greek uncials. ► NOUN ▪ the Cyrillic alphabet. ORIGIN named after the 9th century Greek missionary St… …   English terms dictionary

  • Cyrillic — 1842, in reference to the Slavic alphabet, from St. Cyril, 9c. apostle of the Slavs, who supposedly invented it. The alphabet replaced earlier GLAGOLITIC (Cf. Glagolitic). The name Cyril is L.L. Cyrillus, from Gk. Kyrillos, lit. lordly, masterful …   Etymology dictionary

  • Cyrillic — [sə ril′ik] adj. designating or of the Slavic alphabet traditionally attributed to Saint Cyril, 9th cent. apostle to the Slavs: in modified form, it is still used in Russia, Bulgaria, and other Slavic countries …   English World dictionary

  • Cyrillic — For Unicode block, see Cyrillic (Unicode block). Cyrillic …   Wikipedia

  • Cyrillic — [[t]sɪrɪ̱lɪk[/t]] also cyrillic 1) ADJ: ADJ n The Cyrillic alphabet is the alphabet that is used to write some Slavonic languages, such as Russian and Bulgarian. 2) N UNCOUNT Cyrillic is the Cyrillic alphabet. ...signs written in Cyrillic …   English dictionary

  • Cyrillic — 1. noun /səˈrɪ.lɪk/ An alphabet devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several Slavic and other languages of Eastern Europe and Asia. Syn …   Wiktionary

  • Cyrillic —    The oldest manuscripts in Church Slavonic (q.v.) are in two different scripts, Glagolitic (q.v.) and Cyrillic. Cyril and Methodios (q.v.) invented the former, but the latter script, which incorrectly bears Cyril s name, is thought to be an… …   Historical dictionary of Byzantium

  • Cyrillic — adjective Cyrillic writing is written in the alphabet used for Russian, Bulgarian, and other Slavonic languages: a Cyrillic typewriter …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Cyrillic — /səˈrɪlɪk/ (say suh rilik) adjective of or relating to the Cyrillic alphabet. {from Cyril + ic. See Cyrillic alphabet} …  

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