ionic

noun

the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia

adjective

of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language

of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture

containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions

Roots

ionion- · Greek · going, that which goes ikos-ic · Greek · pertaining to

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