Slavi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɒviː/
ipa: /ˈslɑvi/
Etymology: From Latin Sclavī, plural of Late Latin and Medieval Latin Sclavus (“a Slav”).
Senses: examples: text: The tribes of the Slavi were diſtinguiſhed by peculiar names; thus we have the Slavi Marahani, Slavi Sorbi, Slavi Behemani, Slavi Dalemincii, Slavi Carentani, Slavi Polaci or Poloni, Slavi Chorvati, Slavi Roſſi, &c. A great many of theſe are taken from rivers, and parts of the country they inhabited.
ref: 1773, J. R. Forster, “Notes on the First Chapter of the First Book of Ælfred’s Anglo-Saxon Version of Orosius”, in Orosius, [translation wrongly attributed to Alfred the Great], The Anglo-Saxon Version, from the Historian Orosius. … Together with an English Translation from the Anglo-Saxon, London: Printed by W[illiam] Bowyer and J[ohn] Nichols. [...], →OCLC, page 251:
text: Two great races have probably existed in the north-east of Europe for some thousand years. The vain Greeks and proud Romans despised the obscure names of Slavonians and Finns, (Slavi and Finni;) but these populous tribes have occupied from the earliest dawn of history all the countries comprehended under the vague and chimerical names of Scythia and Sarmatia. […] The Slavonic nations are divided, according to their dialects, into three branches: first, the eastern Slavi including the Russians, […] secondly the western Slavi or the Poles, Bohemians, Hungarian Slavi, and the Sorabs or Serbs of Lusatia; thirdly, the northern Slavi or the Venedes of the Romans, […]
ref: 1829, [Conrad] Malte-Brun, “Book XCVI. Europe.—Introduction.”, in Universal Geography, or A Description of All Parts of the World, […], volumes IV (Containing the Theory, or Mathematical, Physical, and Political Principles, or Geography), Philadelphia, Pa.: John Laval and S. F. Bradford, →OCLC, page 46:
text: [T]hey appear frequently in the accounts of the Byzantine historians, under the different appellations of the Slavi, Sarmatæ, Antæ, Vandales, Veneti, and Vendes, mostly as involved in the wars of the two Roman empires, sometimes as allies, sometimes as conquerors; […]
ref: 1850, Talvi [pseudonym; Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob Robinson], “Historical Sketch. Introduction.”, in Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations; with a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry, New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, […], page 2:
text: Early Roman writers refer to the Slavi under the names of the Venedi (Vindes) and the Servians, both of which still designate branches of the race.
ref: 1862, “SLAVI”, in George Ripley, Charles A[nderson] Dana, editors, The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, volumes XIV (Reed–Spire), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […]; Boston, Mass.: Elliot and White, →OCLC, page 716, column 1:
text: As known, the Slovaks found themselves part of the Kingdom of Hungary after the disintegration of the Great Moravian Empire around AD 905. Within Hungary, they were designated as being Slavi in official documents (charters, laws), and in medieval chronicles such as that penned by an anonymous notary of King Béla III at the beginning of the thirteenth century. […] As the Slovaks had not established their own state they continued to be known as Slavi, a term that was the Latin equivalent of the Old Slavic Slavieni.
ref: 2011, Ĺudovít Haraksim, “Slovak Slavism and Panslavism”, in Mikuláš Teich, Dušan Kováč, Martin D. Brown, editors, Slovakia in History, Cambridge; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: plural of Slav.