Slavo-
(ˈslɑːvəʊ, ˈslævəʊ)
combining form (on Greek analogies) of Slav: a. Used parasynthetically with terms denoting other peoples or countries, as Slavo-Germanic, Slavo-Hungarian, Slavo-Lettic, Slavo-Lithuanian, Slavo-Phœnician, etc.
| 1839 Donaldson New Cratyl. §97 (1850) 141 The old Pelasgian or Slavo-Phœnician language of the South. 1874 H. Bendall tr. Schleicher's Compar. Gram. i. 7 Teutonic and Sclavo-Lithuanian. 1875 Whitney Life Lang. x. 182 This branch is often called the Slavo-Lettic. 1888 Strong tr. Paul's Princ. Lang. ii. 29 We assume..a Slavo-Germanic, a Slavo-Lettic, an original Germanic..language. 1889 I. Taylor Orig. Aryans 35 Roots peculiar to Slavo-Lithuanian and Teutonic. |
b. Objective, in
adjs. or
ns. denoting tendency to admire or favour the Slavs, Slavonic ideals, etc., as
ˈSlavophil(e,
Slaˈvophilism; or morbid dread of these, as
ˈSlavophobe,
Slaˈvophobist.
| 1877 Wallace Russia ix. 139 They agreed..with the *Slavophils. 1881 Athenæum 8 Jan. 54/1 He poses as an incurable Slavophile. Ibid. 55/1 The history of the Slavophile movement. 1892 H. D. Traill Marq. Salisbury xiii. 183 Their Slavophil opponents were jubilant. |
| 1877 Wallace Russia xxvi. 418 The characteristic traits of genuine *Slavophilism. 1883 Times 3 May 4 The second part of the volume is a manifesto of ‘Slavophilism’. |
| 1887 Pall Mall G. 8 July 1/1 Hungarians are, as a rule, *Slavophobes. |