Cyrillic

[ si-ril-ik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

noting or pertaining to a script derived from Greek uncials and traditionally supposed to have been invented by St. Cyril, first used for the writing of Old Church Slavonic and adopted with minor modifications for the writing of Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and some non-Slavic languages of Central Asia.
of or relating to St. Cyril.

noun

Cyrillic script.

Cyrillic

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adjective

denoting or relating to the alphabet derived from that of the Greeks, supposedly by Saint Cyril, for the writing of Slavonic languages: now used primarily for Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian

noun

this alphabet

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cyrillic¹

1835–45; < New Latin Cyrillicus, equivalent to Cyrill ( us ) Saint Cyril + -icus -ic

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The presence of so many Russian troops in Hmeimim had affected the nearby city of Jableh, where storefronts a few miles from the airbase sported signs in Cyrillic as well as Arabic.

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The Russian tricolor is omnipresent, as is the Cyrillic alphabet.

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Russian is often heard on the street and local hospitals have signs in Cyrillic script.

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Indeed, on Thursday, a new user on the forum claimed a hacker known as “thekilob” had stolen more than 55,000 records and exclaimed “Glory to Russia” in Cyrillic.

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The holidays are past, even the post New Year’s Cyrillic parties we called “Serbian Christmas” growing up in western Pennsylvania are faint memories obscured by rocket booms in Ukraine.

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Cyril Cyrillic alphabet

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