Ukraine vs Ukrainica - What's the difference?
ukraine | ukrainica |
A country in Eastern Europe; was long part of the Russian Empire, then of the Soviet Union. Official name: Ukraine.
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(Slavistics) Literature about Ukraine or Ukrainians, especially about Ukrainian culture, language, or literature.
* 1944 , The Ukrainian Quarterly , v 1, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, p 89:
* 1957 , Books Abroad , v 31, University of Oklahoma, p 439:
* 1978 , James Howard Fraser ed., Society & Children's Literature , D.R. Godine, p 89:
* 2001 , David H. Stam ed., International Dictionary of Library Dictionaries , v 2, Taylor & Francis, p 593:
As a proper noun ukraine
is ukraine.As a noun ukrainica is
(slavistics) literature about ukraine or ukrainians, especially about ukrainian culture, language, or literature.ukraine
English
(wikipedia Ukraine) (Name of Ukraine)Alternative forms
* Ocraine; Ukrain; Ukrania, UcraniaProper noun
(en proper noun)Usage notes
* Since the country's independence in 1991, style guides recommend Ukraine'' (as in "a musician from Ukraine"), without an article. Previously, the most common usage was ''the Ukraine (as in "a musician from the Ukraine").See also
* * * * Little Russia * Ruthenia ----ukrainica
English
Alternative forms
* Ucrainica * ukrainicaNoun
(-)- Ukrainica in American Periodicals [section title]
- Yaroslav Rudnyc’kyj, head of the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba, came to the United States in mid-year of 1956 to make a study of the Ukrainian holdings at the Library of Congress and to organize an exhibit of rare Ukrainica in that institution.
- The central children's room of the New York Public Library has as well a sampling of that Ukrainica published in New York City.
- The following specialized divisions were created: periodicals, Ukrainica , manuscripts, old printed books, Oriental, cartography, and ephemera (advertisements, placards).