Glagolitic

English

The Glagolitic alphabet in round style.

Alternative forms

• Glagolithic

Etymology

From New Latin glagoliticus, from Old Church Slavonic глаголица (glagolica), from глаголъ (glagolŭ, “word, speech”), Glagolitic spelling ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰻⱌⰰ (glagolica).

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɡlæɡəʊˈlɪtɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk/

Adjective

Glagolitic (not comparable)

1. Of or written with the Glagolitic alphabet.
   • 1778, Alberto Fortis, Travels Into Dalmatia: Containing General Observations on the Natural History of that Country and the Neighboring Islands; the Natural Productions, Arts, Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, page 401:

     The Slavic, and Illyric language has two alphabets. The first is called Glagolitic…, and in our times, is only used in the sacred books.

2. Denoting Slavic Roman Catholic rites in Dalmatia.
   • 1861, John Mason Neale, Notes Ecclesiological & Picturesque, on Dalmatia, Croatia, Istria, Styria: With a Visit to Montenegro, page 98:

     In the case of mixed marriages between a Glagolitic and Latin Catholic, the children follow the rite of the father; but there is an exception in favour of the eldest daughter of a Glagolitic family.

Synonyms

• (archaic) Hieronymian, Illyrian, Slovenish

Translations

of or pertaining to the Glagolitic alphabet

• Catalan: glagolític m
• Dutch: Glagolitisch
• Finnish: glagoliittinen (fi)
• French: glagolitique (fr) m or f
• Galician: glagolítico m
• German: glagolitisch (de)
• Greek: γλαγολιτικός (el) (glagolitikós)
• Hungarian: glagolita
• Irish: Glagalach
• Italian: glagolitico (it) m
• Macedonian: глаголичен (glagoličen), глаголски (glagolski)
• Polish: głagolicki (pl) m, głagoliczny m
• Portuguese: glagolítico m
• Russian: глаголи́ческий (ru) (glagolíčeskij)
• Slovak: hlaholský
• Spanish: glagolítico m
• Swedish: glagolitisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: глаголи́чний (hlaholýčnyj)

Noun

Glagolitic (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The oldest known Slavonic alphabet, designed around 862–863 by Saint Cyril in order to translate the Bible and other texts into Old Church Slavonic. Mostly replaced by Cyrillic alphabet in Orthodox Christian Slavic countries, but still in use in the Croatian Church along the Dalmatian coast, in Czech and Croatian recensions of Church Slavic.

Synonyms

• (rare) Bukvitsa
• Glagolitic alphabet
• Glagolitsa
• (archaic) Hieronymian, Illyrian, Slovenish

Translations

the oldest known Slavonic alphabet

• Arabic: أَبْجَدِيَّة غْلَاغُولِيتْسِيَّة‎ f (ʔabjadiyya ḡlāḡūlitsiyya)
• Belarusian: глаго́ліца f (hlahólica)
• Bulgarian: глаго́лица (bg) f (glagólica)
• Catalan: glagolític m, alfabet glagolític m, glagolitsa m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 格拉哥里字母 (gélāgēlǐ zìmǔ)

• Czech: hlaholice f
• Dutch: Glagolitisch n
• Esperanto: Glagolico
• Finnish: glagoliittinen kirjaimisto (fi), glagolitsa
• French: glagol (fr) m, alphabet glagolitique m, glagolitsa m
• Galician: alfabeto glagolítico m, glagolitza m
• Georgian: გლაგოლიცა (glagolica)
• German: Glagoliza (de) f
• Greek: Γλαγολιτικό αλφάβητο n (Glagolitikó alfávito)
• Hungarian: glagolita, glagolita ábécé
• Italian: alfabeto glagolitico m, glagolitico (it) m
• Japanese: グラゴル文字 (guragoru moji)
• Kazakh: глаголица (glagolisa)
• Korean: 글라골 문자 (geullagol munja)
• Kyrgyz: глаголица (glagolitsa)
• Latin: Abecedarium Glagoliticum n
• Latvian: glagolica f
• Lithuanian: glagolica f
• Macedonian: глаголица f (glagolica)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: глаголица f (glagolica)

  Glagolitic: ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰻⱌⰰ f (glagolica)

• Polish: głagolica (pl) f
• Portuguese: alfabeto glagolítico m
• Romanian: alfabet glagolitic (ro) n, glagoliță f
• Russian: глаго́лица (ru) f (glagólica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: глаго̀љица f, буквица f

  Roman: glagòljica (sh) f, bukvica (sh) f

• Slovak: hlaholika f
• Slovene: glagolica f
• Spanish: alfabeto glagolítico m, glagolitsa m
• Swedish: glagolitiskt alfabet n
• Ukrainian: глаго́лиця f (hlahólycja)

See also

• Cyrillic