α. 1800s– Servo-Croatian.
β. 1800s– Serbo-Croatian.
单词 | serbo-croatian |
释义 | Serbo-Croatiann.adj.α. 1800s– Servo-Croatian. β. 1800s– Serbo-Croatian. A. n. 1. In early use: a member of any of various Slavic peoples of south-eastern Europe, including any or all of the Bosnians, Croats, Herzegovinians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, and Serbs. In later use usually: a Yugoslav; a speaker of Serbo-Croatian (sense A. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of former Yugoslavia > [noun] > parts of Ragusian1569 Ragusan1585 Bosnian1594 Bosniak1680 Montenegrin1779 Herzegovinian1849 Montenegran1857 Herzegovinese1862 Serbo-Croatian1862 Istrian1880 α. β. 1878 Month & Catholic Rev. July 349 To the south 3,000,000 Serbo-Croatians inhabit Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia, with part of Istria, in addition to whom 1,200,000 Slovenes are spread through Carinthia, Carniola, and parts of Styria and Istria.1911 W. P. Dillingham Dict. Races 43/2 The Serbo-Croatians are west of the Bulgarians, occupying all the territory to the Adriatic Sea.1922 Art & Archaeol. Aug. 75/2 It was in the same century as witnessed the destruction of Salona that the Serbo-Croatians first migrated into the Balkan peninsula.1963 V. Kubijovyč Ukraine iii. i. 161 Of the Slavs the closest racially to the Ukrainians are the Serbo-Croatians.1985 B. Wright tr. H. Guigonnat Daemon in Lithuania 19 ‘Are you a Balt? A Serbo-Croatian?’ Alas, he didn't answer.2005 J. Donatich Ambivalence 222 Afterwards I eat in an Italian restaurant run by Serbo-Croatians, or by a family on one side of the hyphen.1862 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 769/1 The name Glagol is supposed by Kopitar to have been taken from the word glogolati, which frequently occurs in the liturgies, and which, though unknown to the Servo-Croatians, signifies in the ecclesiastical idiom, to speak. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 22/1 The concessions to the Servo-Croatians had been made by the Liberal ministry. 1910 E. G. Balch Our Slavic Fellow Citizens xii. 247 Special place is given to a group which is merely a territorial division; namely, Dalmatians, Bosnians, and Herzegovinians (who are Servo-Croatians). 1977 Parl. Deb. House of Representatives (Austral. Parl.) 104 433/2 They have different dialects and different customs. The Yugoslavs are divided into the Servo-Croatians, the Macedonians, the Bosnians, and so on. 2. A South Slavonic language spoken in south-eastern Europe, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia, and formerly the official language of Yugoslavia.Serbo-Croatian comprises four closely similar standard varieties (all based on the Štokavian dialect): Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin, all of which, except Croatian, are written using the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets (Croatian uses only the latter). Since the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s the names of these individual languages have generally been preferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Serbo-Croat Bosnian1668 Croatian1825 Croat1849 Serbo-Croatian1877 Montenegrin1894 Serbo-Croat1907 Yugoslavian1924 Štokavian1925 Yugoslav1948 α. β. 1880 Lippincott's Compl. Pronouncing Gazetteer (new ed.) 563/1 It [sc. Croatia] is a fertile country of hills and forests. Its inhabitants are chiefly Croats, a Slavic people, having languages of their own (Serbo-Croatian and Slaveno-Croatian).1883 W. R. Morfill Slavonic Lit. i. 8 The..extent of the territory over which Serbo-Croatian and its dialects..are spoken.1910 Economist 31 Dec. 1338/2 The forms must be printed in nine languages..[including] Serbo-Croatian, Slovenish, Roumanian, Slovak.1964 M. Partridge Serbo-Croatian 13 Three distinct basic dialects exist in spoken Serbo-Croatian. They are referred to as čakavian, kajkavian, and štokavian.1999 Newsweek 26 Apr. 29/1 Twenty Serb policemen barked in Serbo-Croatian, ordering the villagers to step into the Bellaj stream 35 feet away.1877 A. H. Keane tr. A. Hovelacque Sci. of Lang. v. 278 The Slavonic comparative grammar of Miklosich..supplies the most striking proofs of the vast importance of Servo-Croatian. 1887 W. R. Morfill in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 148/2 Servo-Croatian, Slovenish, Slovakish, and Bohemian possess the vocal r. 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. 412 Slavic Branch..Servo-Croatian. 1986 Crustaceana Suppl. No. 10. 309 Servo-Croatian with German summary. 2000 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) (Nexis) 10 Mar. a1 Instructions are available in..Chinese, Creole, Croatian (Servo-Croatian), Czech, Dari, Dinka [etc.]. B. adj. Of or relating to Serbo-Croatians, or to the language of Serbo-Croatian. Also more generally: Yugoslav. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of former Yugoslavia > [adjective] Yugoslav1853 Yugoslavian1864 Serbo-Croatian1870 Yugo1941 Jug1949 α. β. 1870 Athenæum 15 Oct. 495/1 Passing to the Serbo-Croatian literature, M. Leger speaks in high terms of the ‘Memoirs of the Academy of Agram’.1876 Daily News 20 July 6/4 These authorities may succeed in exasperating the large Serbo-Croatian and Serbo-Hungarian populations beyond the limit of endurance.1925 P. Radin tr. J. Vendryes Language 291 In Italy, in the province of Campobasso, there is a Serbo-Croatian colony..which..speaks a dialect of the Stokavian type.1965 Language 41 238 All Serbo-Croatian examples..are cited in conventional Latin-letter orthography.1978 Garden City (Kansas) Telegram 22 Dec. 4/4 [He] said it was simply a poor interview, and that Mihajlov was no more interesting than ‘a Serbo-Croatian cab driver in Chicago’.2004 Wall Street Jrnl. 12 Oct. d6 Ms. Willen..has elegant, European manners and speaks with a Serbo-Croatian accent.1889 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 21 897 Tolerably good Handbook of the Servo-Croatian language, not yet illustrated in English. 1911 Q. Rev. July 260 There has been revived in Austria the idea of ‘trialism’, that is to say, the amalgamation of all the Servo-Croatian countries of the Monarchy into a unit, which, with the German States and Hungary, would form a kind of federal empire. 1988 Crustaceana Suppl. No. 12. 1316 Hungarian with English, Russian and Servo-Croatian summaries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1862 |
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