Etymology

Kirillitsa

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Today it means: The Cyrillic alphabet. Full definition →

Russian кириллица
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromкириллица
  2. English todayKirillitsa

From Russian кириллица (kirillica) (and equivalents in other Slavic languages).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.