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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: Slav 'Slavic person' (14-21 centuries), from Medieval Latin Sclavus, from Late Greek, from Sklabenoi 'Slavs', from a Slavic language

Slavic

 adjective
     
Slav‧ic also Slavonic
relating to the Slavs or their languages
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