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 • Mar. 9, 2015

We hear of books on Alcaeus and on Homer, in which latter he is said to have made the startling remark that the poems 'should be pronounced in the Aeolic dialect'.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert

We have no means of knowing what the Aeolic and Ionic of say the 9th century were, or if there were such dialects at all.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Arcadia, on the other hand, in the heart of Peloponnese, retained till a late date a quite different dialect, akin to the ancient dialect of Cyprus, and more remotely to Aeolic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

The only ancient parallel is in the period of the Aeolic Greek civilisation which produced Sappho.

From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)