Ionic Definition

ī-ŏnĭk
adjective
Of, or being in the form of, an ion or ions.
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Of Ionia or its people or culture; Ionian.
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Of Ionic (the language variety)
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Designating or of a classical (Greek or Roman) order of architecture, distinguished by ornamental scrolls (spiral volutes) on the capitals.
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Of the Ionic of Greek and Latin prosody.
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noun
Either of two feet consisting of four syllables, the first two long and the second two short or the first two short and the second two long.
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Verse or meter of such feet.
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The variety of the ancient Greek language spoken in Ionia, closely related to that of ancient Attica.
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pronoun
A sub-dialect of the Attic-Ionic dialectal group of Ancient Greek consisting of Old Ionic and New Ionic.
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Origin of Ionic

  • From Ancient Greek ιωνικός (ionikos, “related to Ionians”).

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  • ion +‎ -ic

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Ionic Sentence Examples

  • The almost total absence from Homer not only of "Dorians " but of " Ionians " and even of " Hellenes "leads to the conclusion that the diagrammatic genealogy of the " sons of Hellen " is of post-Homeric date; and that it originated as an attempt to classify the Doric, Ionic and Aeolic groups of Hellenic settlements on the west coast of Asia Minor, for here alone do the three names correspond to territorial, linguistic and political divisions.

  • Of late years many observations have been made of the ionic charges in air.

  • Like the temple at Phigalia, it combined the forms of all three orders - Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.

  • It consisted of a large open rectangular space surrounded by an Ionic colonnade into which opened a number of shops or storehouses.

  • Although of Dorian stock, he wrote in the Ionic dialect, like all the physiologi (physical philosophers).

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Words Starting With

IIOION

Words Ending With

CICNIC

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Words Starting With I and Ending With C

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