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E⋅ol⋅ic

[ee-ol-ik]
–noun, adjective
Aeolian.
Also, Aeolic.

Ae⋅ol⋅ic

[ee-ol-ik]
–noun
1. the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.
–adjective
2. 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.
3. Aeolian (def. 1).
Also, Eolic.


Origin:
1730–40; < L Aeolicus < Gk Aiolikós, equiv. to Aioleús (pl. Aioleîs) + -ikos -ic
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eolic

noun
the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis [syn: Aeolic
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