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adjective
1.
of or pertaining to Ionia.
2.
of or pertaining to the branch of the Greek people named from ion, their legendary founder.
noun
3.
4.
an Ionian Greek.
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| Ionian (aɪˈəʊnɪən) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a member of a Hellenic people who settled in Attica in about 1100 |
| —adj | |
| 2. | of or relating to this people or their dialect of Ancient Greek; Ionic |
| 3. | of or relating to Ionia |
| 4. | music See also Hypo- relating to or denoting an authentic mode represented by the ascending natural diatonic scale from C to C and forming the basis of the modern major key |
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Word Origin & History
Ionian
"of Ionia," the districts of ancient Greece inhabited by the Ionians (including Attica and the north coast of the Peloponnesus, but especially the coastal strip of Asia Minor, including the islands of Samos and Chios). The name probably is pre-Gk., perhaps related to Skt. yoni "womb, vulva," and a ref.
EXPANDto goddess-worshipping people. Also used of the sea that lies between Italy and the northern Peloponnesus (1632). The musical Ionian mode (1844) corresponds to our basic major scale but was characterized by the Greeks as soft and effeminate. The Ionic order of Gk. architecture is attested from 1563.
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"The Ionians delighted in wanton dances and songs more than the rest of the Greeks ... and wanton gestures were proverbially termed Ionic motions." [Thomas Robinson, "Archæologica Græca," 1807]
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