Aeolic

American  

[ee-ol-ik] / iˈɒl ɪk /

Or Eolic

noun

1. Also the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly.

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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. Aeolian.

Aeolic British  

/ iːˈəʊlɪk, iːˈɒlɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Aeolians or their dialect

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noun

1. one of four chief dialects of Ancient Greek, spoken chiefly in Thessaly, Boeotia, and Aeolis

Etymology

Origin of Aeolic

First recorded in 1730–40; from Latin Aeolicus, from Greek Aiolikós, equivalent to Aioleús (plural Aioleîs ) + -ikos adjective, noun suffix; -ic

Example Sentences

Market forces were also at work: as the centuries passed, fewer readers—and fewer scribes—understood Aeolic, the dialect in which Sappho composed, and so demand for new copies diminished.

From The New Yorker

Others are not really Attic at all, but borrowed from earlier Aeolic and Doric poetry.

From Project Gutenberg

These legends lived in the The “Iliad” and the “Odyssey.” ballads of the Aeolic minstrels, and from them passed southward into Ionia, where the Ionian poets gradually shaped them into higher artistic forms.

From Project Gutenberg

Chios, the most 497 northerly Ionic island on the Asiatic coast, seems to have been originally Aeolic, and its Ionic retained some Aeolic characteristics.

From Project Gutenberg

The elegy, in its calm movement, seems to have begun to lose currency when the ecstasy of emotion was more successfully interpreted by the various rhythmic and dithyrambic inventions of the Aeolic lyrists.

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