Aeolic

Aeolic
noun
the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis
• Syn: ↑Aeolic dialect, ↑Eolic
• Hypernyms: ↑Ancient Greek

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I. \\ēˈälik\ adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Latin Aeolicus, from Greek Aiolikos, from Aiolis Aeolia + Greek -ikos -ic
: aeolian I
II. noun (-s)
Usage: capitalized
: a group of dialects of ancient Greek used by the Aeolians
III. adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Latin Aeolicus, literally, of Aeolia
: of or relating to lyric rhythms marked by isosyllabic balance and combination of dactyls and trochees with frequent variation or of tetrasyllabic units (as choriambs) — compare logaoedic, polyschematist dimeter

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/ee ol"ik/, n.
1. the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.
adj.
2. Archit. noting or pertaining to a capital used in the Greek territories of the eastern Aegean in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., having two volutes rising from a shaft in opposite directions, and often having below them two convex rings of leaf ornament in the form of water-lily buds.
3. Aeolian (def. 1).
Also, Eolic.
[1730-40; < L Aeolicus < Gk Aiolikós, equiv. to Aioleús (pl. Aioleîs) + -ikos -IC]

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Aeolic /-olˈik/ noun
The Greek dialect of the Aeolians
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Main Entry: ↑Aeolian

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