Old Church Slavonic
noun
the oldest attested Slavic language, an ecclesiastical language written first by Cyril and Methodius in a Bible translation of the 9th century and continued in use for about two centuries. It represents the South Slavic, Bulgarian dialect of 9th-century Salonika with considerable addition of other South and West Slavic elements. Abbreviation: OCS
Compare
Church Slavic.
Origin of Old Church Slavonic
First recorded in 1875–80
Definition for old slavonic (2 of 2)
Also called
Old Slavonic.
British Dictionary definitions for old slavonic (1 of 2)
Old Slavonic
Old Slavic
noun
the South Slavonic language up to about 1400: the language of the Macedonian Slavs that developed into Serbo-Croat and Bulgarian
See also Old Church Slavonic
British Dictionary definitions for old slavonic (2 of 2)
Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavic
noun
the oldest recorded Slavonic language: the form of Old Slavonic into which the Bible was translated in the ninth century, preserved as a liturgical language of various Orthodox Churches: belonging to the South Slavonic subbranch of languages