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; see -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

When the Ionic alphabet was adopted by districts which had retained ϝ, it was represented by β: βρόδον Aeolic for ῥόδον, i.e. ϝρόδον.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

The northern Doris, for example, spoke Aeolic, while Elis, Phocis, and many non-Dorian districts of north-west Greece spoke dialects akin to Doric.

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

And that this Aeolic speaking poet was a Boeotian of Ascra seems even more certain, since the tradition is never once disputed, insignificant though the place was, even before its destruction by the Thespians.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

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)