1887 Morfill in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 145/1Servo-Croats, including those of Servia, Montenegro, the southern part of Hungary.
Ibid. 148/2Servo-Croatian, Slovenish, Slovakish, and Bohemian possess the vocal r.
1896 Keane Ethnol. 412Slavic Branch..Servo-Croatian.
1897 E. A. Bartlett Battlefields of Thessaly iii. 72The last Servo-Turkish campaign, that of 1876.
1914 W. G. Lawrence in HomeLett. T. E. Lawrence (1954) 509The Servo-Turkish war.
ORIGIN: from Servian adjective 1 + -o- .