Definitions for Aeolic

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Aeolic Ae·ol·ic

Spelling: [ee-ol-ik]

IPA: /iˈɒl ɪk/

Aeolic is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in Aeolic (aceilo).

Definitions for Aeolic

noun

1. the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.

adjective

1. Architecture. 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.
2. Aeolian2 (def 1).

noun, adjective

1. Aeolian.

Origin of Aeolic

1730-40; Latin Aeolicus Greek Aiolikós, equivalent to Aioleús (plural Aioleîs) + -ikos -ic

Examples for Aeolic

This poem, like the preceding one, is written in the Aeolic dialect.

This is the presence of an Aeolic or semi-Aeolic form of language in Boeotia.

Similarly, the Dorian Theocritus wrote love-songs in Aeolic.

They are sufficiently accounted for by the fact that the poems are of Aeolic origin.

The other Aeolic and Ionic leaders are distinctly less prominent.

And what need is there for supposing that an Aeolic poem must contain any Aeolic characters at all?

In the Iliad, as we have it, only a small proportion of the characters at most can be regarded as Aeolic.

It is to be remembered that as a patronymic Τελαμώνιος is an Aeolic formation.

It must be clearly understood that I am using the term 'Aeolic' in the modern (linguistic) sense.

In Arcadian καν the Aeolic particle κε and the Ionic αν seem to be combined.