Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

• (Glagolitic): ⰴⱑⰲⰹⱌⰰ ‎(děvica)

Noun

дѣвица • ‎(děvica) f

1. girl
2. virgin

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

• дивица ‎(divica)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *děvica ‎(“girl, maiden”).

Noun

дѣвица ‎(děvica) f

1. maid, maiden, damsel, virgin

Descendants

• Russian: деви́ца ‎(devíca)
• Ukrainian: діви́ца ‎(divýca)

References

• Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), “дѣвица”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 780