GLAGOLITIC


Meaning of GLAGOLITIC in English

/glag'euh lit"ik/ , adj.

1. noting or written in an alphabet, probably invented by St. Cyril in about A.D. 865, formerly used in writing Old Church Slavonic and other Slavic languages: almost completely replaced by Cyrillic starting about the 10th century.

n.

2. the Glagolitic alphabet.

[ 1860-65; glagoliticus, equiv. to glagolit ( a ), Latinization of Serbo-Croatian glagòljica (ult. deriv. of OCS glagolu speech, word) + -icus -IC ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .