Cyrillic

[ si-ril-ik ]

/ sɪˈrɪl ɪk /

adjective

noting or pertaining to a script derived from Greek uncials and traditionally supposed to have been invented by St. Cyril, first used for the writing of Old Church Slavonic and adopted with minor modifications for the writing of Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and some non-Slavic languages of Central Asia.

of or relating to St. Cyril.

noun

Cyrillic script.

Origin of Cyrillic

1835–45; < New Latin Cyrillicus, equivalent to Cyrill(us) Saint Cyril + -icus -ic

Example sentences from the Web for cyrillic

Down the highway, large letters shaped out of concrete or metal letters spelled out Donetsk in Cyrillic letters.

On the Bus: Ukraine’s Frontline Express Across the Battle Lines |Ted Phillips |September 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And there was a name there, in the Cyrillic alphabet which was the official written language of the Com-Pubs.

Invasion |William Fitzgerald Jenkins
The Glagolitic literature was therefore almost exclusively limited to copies of the productions of their Cyrillic brethren.

Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations |Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
I promised, took the pencil and wrote my name very large in Cyrillic; he was delighted, and everyone came to see.

Through the Land of the Serb |Mary Edith Durham

But, whereas the original drawing has been labeled entirely in Cyrillic characters, these labels were now in English.

The Foreign Hand Tie |Gordon Randall Garrett
Nearly at the same time, 1492, they began in Servia and Herzegovina to print with Cyrillic types.

Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations |Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson

British Dictionary definitions for cyrillic

Cyrillic

/ (sɪˈrɪlɪk) /

adjective

denoting or relating to the alphabet derived from that of the Greeks, supposedly by Saint Cyril, for the writing of Slavonic languages: now used primarily for Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian

noun

this alphabet

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Cyrillic

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Origin of Cyrillic

Example sentences from the Web for cyrillic

British Dictionary definitions for cyrillic

adjective

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