Ioniann.¹adj.²

Brit.

/ʌɪˈəʊnɪən/, U.S.

/aɪˈoʊniən/

Forms: 1500s Iônian, 1500s Ionien, 1500s– Ionian.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek Ἰώνιος , -an suffix.

Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek Ἰώνιος of or relating to the district of Ionia, Ionic ( < ancient Greek Ἰωνία Ionia) + -an suffix. Compare Middle French, French ionien (noun) person from the district of Ionia (1529), (adjective) or relating to the district of Ionia, Ionic (16th cent., in general use and also specifically with reference to the musical mode). Compare classical Latin Iōnes , ancient Greek Ἴωνες (plural) Ionians. Compare earlier Ionic n., Ionic adj.¹Compare Old English Ionas Ionians ( < classical Latin Iōnes: see above), which occurs as an ethnonym in the Old English translation of Orosius Hist.

A. n.¹

1. Ancient History. A member of an ancient Hellenic people inhabiting Attica, parts of western Asia Minor, and the Aegean Islands in pre-classical times; spec. a native or inhabitant of Ionia, a region on the west coast of Asia Minor settled by these people.

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the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Greece and the Aegean > [noun] > person

Hellene1482

Pelasgianc1487

Ionian1542

Minyan1566

Minyae1567

Thracian1569

Ionic1577

Hellenian1598

Lapith1607

Minoan1902

Keftian1903

Thraco-Phrygian1946

1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 105^v The people of Grece whiche repaired to the said counsaill are noumbreed twelue: the Ionianz, the Dorianz, [etc.].

1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Civ^v Ionica..was deuised by the Ionians and set in the temple of Diana.

1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 70 Well may we say of our cups as was wont to be said of the Ionians, they are good servants, ill free-men, and masters.

1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 45 The Ionians and the Attics were anciently one People, and the Language the same.

1720 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad V. xx. Observ. 1563 After the Ionic Migration, which happen'd about 140 Years after the taking of Troy, the Ionians of Asia assembled in the Fields of Priene.

1797 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings (new ed.) in Poems (ed. 2) 135 Strong as an host of armed Deities, Such as the blind Ionian [i.e. Homer] fabled erst.

1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxi. 521 The Ionians delighted in wanton dances and songs more than the rest of the Greeks..and wanton gestures were proverbially termed Ionic motions.

1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 13 Miletus seems to have fallen to the share of the Athenian Ionians... Another party of Ionians under Androclus took possession of Ephesus.

1930 Q. Rev. Biol. 5 469/2 The Ionians broke down the heavy shackles which this system imposed on the great mass of people.

1959 D. Page Hist. & Homeric Iliad iv. 123 Nobody supposes that a Boeotian, or an Ionian from Asia Minor, travelled in the Dark Ages round the mainland, blazing a trail for Pausanias and Baedeker.

1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 29 Turkish children are told that the Ionians were a people ‘completely alien to the Ancient Greeks’.

2. Music. The Ionian mode (see sense B. 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > medieval mode > authentic modes

Aeolian1589

Ionian1589

authent1597

Dorian mode1603

authentic1609

Ionic1616

Aeolic mode1636

Locrian1753

hyperdorian1761

hyperionian1761

hyperlydian1761

Aeolian mode?1775

Ionian mode?1775

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. x. 70 The Eolien, Miolidien [read Mixolidien] and Ionien.

1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick viii. 20 This Mood had its derivation from the Ionian of Ionia.

1761 F. H. E. Stiles in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 712 The Hypoïonian mese was inserted in f natural, and the Hypoæolian in g natural, at a fourth respectively from the Ionian and Æolian.

a1771 T. Gray Notes on Plato in Wks. (1884) IV. 234 The Ionian was frequently used in the tragick chorus, as being accommodated to sorrow, as was also the Mixo-Lydian.

1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 289 The Greeks had seven principal moods, the Dorian, Aeolian..and Ionian [Ger. ionische].

1894 D. B. Monro Modes Anc. Greek Music vi. 11 The conjecture of Boeckh that Ionian was the same as the later Hypo-phrygian.

1919 Musical Q. Oct. 587 Structurally, the scale of the Ionian was nothing but the scale formed of two tetrachords of the form characteristic of the Dorian mode.

2002 W. Melton & R. Weinstein Compl. Idiot's Guide playing Harmonica xiii. 142 If Ionian is bright, Lydian is brilliant.

B. adj.²

1. Ancient History. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Ionians (see sense A. 1); Ionic.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands

Ionic1483

Rhodiana1533

Candian1559

lesbian1559

Cretan1579

Ionian1579

Ortygian1582

Parianc1602

Lemnian1611

Carpathian1637

lesbic1659

Eubœan1660

Melian1684

Sciote1718

Minoan1830

Naxiote1859

Corfiote1877

Knossian1894

Siphnian1895

Cycladic1915

Leucadian1952

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [adjective] > southern > specific area

Ionian1579

Volga German1941

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 621 Many of their kinges, and of the royal blood of the Arsacides, were borne of the Ionian and Milesian curtisans.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course v. f. 61 Thales..was the author of the Ionian sect.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 37 The Capitall dressed on each side..in a spirall wreathing, which they call the Ionian Voluta.

1643 J. Ussher Geogr. & Hist. Disqvis. Asia ii. 8 The Ionian dialect.

1737 Universal Hist. II. i. xix. 559 Lycurgus passed over to the continent of Asia, that he might philosophize on the Ionian mode of life.

1758 J. Upton in E. Spenser Faerie Queene I. p. xxxiii The old Ionian language, as written in Homer's age.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 87 Xuthus..through his sons, Ion and Achæus..was considered as the forefather of the Achæan and the Ionian tribes.

1867 Freewill Baptist Q. Oct. 436 It [sc. Memphis] was visited by Thales, an Ionian philosopher some 600 years B. C.

1900 U.P. Mag. Feb. 68/1 Some hundreds of hardy Ionian oarsmen from Phocee.

1983 J. Hutchinson Lett. ii. 45 The Ionian alphabet became the classic alphabet of Greece.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 May 44/4 We get general pieces on hoplite and trireme warfare..and the Ionian Revolt.

2. Music. Originally (now historical): designating an ancient Greek tonos or scale inserted between the Dorian and the Phrygian in a semitonal series. In modern use: designating the octave-scale c–c′, divided harmonically at g, the 11th mode and having c as finalis. Esp. in Ionian mode, Ionian scale.In early use this mode was thought to have a cheerful effeminate character.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > medieval mode > authentic modes

Aeolian1589

Ionian1589

authent1597

Dorian mode1603

authentic1609

Ionic1616

Aeolic mode1636

Locrian1753

hyperdorian1761

hyperionian1761

hyperlydian1761

Aeolian mode?1775

Ionian mode?1775

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > ancient Greek modes > specific

Dorian mode1603

Locrian1753

hyperaeolian1761

hyperlydian1761

hypermixolydian1761

hyperphrygian1761

Ionian mode?1775

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 50 He regarded not the dainety Lydian, Iônian, or Æolian Melody: but the braue Dorian, and impetuous Phrygian Musique.

a1771 T. Gray Notes on Plato in Wks. (1884) IV. 233 The Lydian, Syntono-Lydian, and Ionian harmonies are banished, as accommodated to the soft enervate passions.

?1775 W. Waring tr. J.-J. Rousseau Dict. Music 196 The ionian mode is the twelfth in order from flat to sharp, according to Alypius's numeration.

1852 A. H. Wehrhan tr. A. B. Marx Universal School of Music I. 347 It erects the Ionian scale of F upon its own tonic.

1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony ii. 35 At last, under the name of the Ionian mode, our modern scale of C.

1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music ii. 44 The white-note scales on C (Ionian mode) and A (Aeolian mode) were already our C major and A minor scales.

1986 College Music. Symp. 26 81 This scale is placed first in Bronson's pentatonic series because of its similarity to the Ionian mode.

2010 E. Sarath Music Theory through Improvisation viii. 140 The same holds for the fourth degree of the Ionian scale.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

Ionianadj.¹n.²

Brit.

/ʌɪˈəʊnɪən/, U.S.

/aɪˈoʊniən/

Forms: 1500s Iönian, 1500s– Ionian, 1600s Ionean.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Īonius , -an suffix; Greek Ἰόνιος , -an suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin Īonius, designating the part of the Mediterranean between Greece and Southern Italy, of or proper to this sea (sometimes also of or relating to the district Ionia, Ionic) or its etymon ancient Greek Ἰόνιος, designating the part of the Mediterranean between Greece and Southern Italy (explained by some ancient authors as the sea across which the mythical Io swam) + -an suffix. Compare French ionien (1624 as adjective, designating the sea, 1854 or earlier as noun; the source cited in quot. 1816 at sense B. is translated from an unpublished French manuscript). Compare earlier Ionian n.¹ and later Ionian adj.²With the form Ionean compare -ean suffix. With Ionian Sea (see sense A.) compare classical Latin Īonium mare, ancient Greek Ἰονία θάλασσα, Hellenistic Greek Ἰόνιον πέλαγος.

A. adj.¹

Of, relating to, or designating the area, esp. the sea, between mainland Greece and southern Italy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > regions of Greece

Macedonc1450

Olympian1523

Ionian?1556

Macedonian1556

Achaean1567

Peloponnesian1569

Molossian1587

Thessalian1594

Thracian1594

Olympic1597

Argive1598

Attic1599

isthmian1603

Pharsalian1605

Aonian1607

Attical1610

Phocian1614

Messenianc1615

Marathonian1623

Bœotic1851

Athoan1869

Thraco-Illyrian1931

Athonite1963

?1556 N. Smyth in tr. Herodian Hist. sig. Ff.j^v Plinye..sayeth, that the Greekes deuyded the Ionian Sea, into the Sea of Sicile, and the Sea of Crete.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 66 I left the turmoyling dangers of the intricated Iles, of the Ionean and Adriaticall seas.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. 20 If Ovid in that straight Ionian Deep Was lost so hard, much more are we on Seas of larger Bounds.

1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health iii. 75 Charybdis rages in th' Ionian wave.

1767 C. Smart tr. Horace Epodes ix, in tr. Horace Wks. (new ed.) II. 197 The shallows of th'Ionian bay Shall leave your mastless deck distress'd, And break your very keel away.

1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 28 Under the roof of blue Ionian weather.

1846 C. White Three Years in Constantinople v. 139 British Ionian and Maltese subjects, who receive residence permits from the consulates.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 430/2 He obtained considerable naval successes in the Ionian Sea against the triumvirate.

1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular vii. 200 Work into Italy was handled by a separate unit at Monopoli on the Ionian shore.

1995 Holiday Which? Sept. 162/2 If your main interest is in Norman architecture concentrate on the Tyrrhenian coast, for baroque the Ionian coast and for classical the Mediterranean.

B. n.²

A native or inhabitant of the Ionian islands.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > Greek islands

Rhodianc1450

Naxianc1487

Candian1549

Melian1550

Parian1550

Sciote1553

Cretan1579

Samian1579

Leucadian1615

Sciana1641

Siphnian1709

Septinsular1807

Ionian1816

Corfiote1835

Naxiote1859

1816 W. Walton tr. G. de Vaudoncourt Mem. Ionian Islands xi. 395 This formidable promontory is still venerated by the Ionians.

1898 J. McCarthy Story Gladstone xvii. 192 The Ionians had one uncompromising grievance.

1909 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Daily Herald 20 Jan. 3/5 (headline) Ionians shaken up.

1972 D. Dakin Unification of Greece xvii. 257 Aristotelis Valaoritis, an Ionian..entered the Greek parliament when the Ionian islands were joined to Greece.

2009 Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 15 May d1 Ionians eat more pasta, I think, than Italians.

Compounds

Ionian islands n. (with the) a chain of about forty Greek islands in the Ionian Sea, situated off the western coast of mainland Greece; (also in singular) one of these islands.The seven principal islands of this chain are Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Zakinthos, Paxos, Lefkas, and Kythira. Between 1815 and 1864 they constituted a British protectorate called the United States of the Ionian Islands.

ΚΠ

1695 P. Hume Annot. Paradise Lost ii. 94 Ulysses,..Son of Laertes King of Ithaca and Dulichia, two small Ionian Islands.

1815 in Parl. Deb. (1816) 1st Ser. 32 297/1 The trading flag of the United States of the Ionian islands shall be acknowledged by all the Contracting Parties as the Flag of a free and independent State.

1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 14 Ionian Islands is the name given to the seven islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Paxo, and Cerigo, which are scattered along the coast of Epirus and of the Peloponnesus.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 513 The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George was founded..to reward the services of the inhabitants of Malta and the Ionian islands.

1991 Washington Post 20 Jan. (Book World) 4/4 Leucadia in the Ionian islands, [Lafcadio] Hearn's birthplace.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ionian
释义	Ioniann.¹adj.² Brit. /ʌɪˈəʊnɪən/, U.S. /aɪˈoʊniən/ Forms: 1500s Iônian, 1500s Ionien, 1500s– Ionian. Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek Ἰώνιος , -an suffix. Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek Ἰώνιος of or relating to the district of Ionia, Ionic ( < ancient Greek Ἰωνία Ionia) + -an suffix. Compare Middle French, French ionien (noun) person from the district of Ionia (1529), (adjective) or relating to the district of Ionia, Ionic (16th cent., in general use and also specifically with reference to the musical mode). Compare classical Latin Iōnes , ancient Greek Ἴωνες (plural) Ionians. Compare earlier Ionic n., Ionic adj.¹Compare Old English Ionas Ionians ( < classical Latin Iōnes: see above), which occurs as an ethnonym in the Old English translation of Orosius Hist. A. n.¹ 1. Ancient History. A member of an ancient Hellenic people inhabiting Attica, parts of western Asia Minor, and the Aegean Islands in pre-classical times; spec. a native or inhabitant of Ionia, a region on the west coast of Asia Minor settled by these people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Greece and the Aegean > [noun] > person Hellene1482 Pelasgianc1487 Ionian1542 Minyan1566 Minyae1567 Thracian1569 Ionic1577 Hellenian1598 Lapith1607 Minoan1902 Keftian1903 Thraco-Phrygian1946 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 105^v The people of Grece whiche repaired to the said counsaill are noumbreed twelue: the Ionianz, the Dorianz, [etc.]. 1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Civ^v Ionica..was deuised by the Ionians and set in the temple of Diana. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 70 Well may we say of our cups as was wont to be said of the Ionians, they are good servants, ill free-men, and masters. 1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 45 The Ionians and the Attics were anciently one People, and the Language the same. 1720 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad V. xx. Observ. 1563 After the Ionic Migration, which happen'd about 140 Years after the taking of Troy, the Ionians of Asia assembled in the Fields of Priene. 1797 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings (new ed.) in Poems (ed. 2) 135 Strong as an host of armed Deities, Such as the blind Ionian [i.e. Homer] fabled erst. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxi. 521 The Ionians delighted in wanton dances and songs more than the rest of the Greeks..and wanton gestures were proverbially termed Ionic motions. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 13 Miletus seems to have fallen to the share of the Athenian Ionians... Another party of Ionians under Androclus took possession of Ephesus. 1930 Q. Rev. Biol. 5 469/2 The Ionians broke down the heavy shackles which this system imposed on the great mass of people. 1959 D. Page Hist. & Homeric Iliad iv. 123 Nobody supposes that a Boeotian, or an Ionian from Asia Minor, travelled in the Dark Ages round the mainland, blazing a trail for Pausanias and Baedeker. 1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 29 Turkish children are told that the Ionians were a people ‘completely alien to the Ancient Greeks’. 2. Music. The Ionian mode (see sense B. 2). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > medieval mode > authentic modes Aeolian1589 Ionian1589 authent1597 Dorian mode1603 authentic1609 Ionic1616 Aeolic mode1636 Locrian1753 hyperdorian1761 hyperionian1761 hyperlydian1761 Aeolian mode?1775 Ionian mode?1775 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. x. 70 The Eolien, Miolidien [read Mixolidien] and Ionien. 1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick viii. 20 This Mood had its derivation from the Ionian of Ionia. 1761 F. H. E. Stiles in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 712 The Hypoïonian mese was inserted in f natural, and the Hypoæolian in g natural, at a fourth respectively from the Ionian and Æolian. a1771 T. Gray Notes on Plato in Wks. (1884) IV. 234 The Ionian was frequently used in the tragick chorus, as being accommodated to sorrow, as was also the Mixo-Lydian. 1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 289 The Greeks had seven principal moods, the Dorian, Aeolian..and Ionian [Ger. ionische]. 1894 D. B. Monro Modes Anc. Greek Music vi. 11 The conjecture of Boeckh that Ionian was the same as the later Hypo-phrygian. 1919 Musical Q. Oct. 587 Structurally, the scale of the Ionian was nothing but the scale formed of two tetrachords of the form characteristic of the Dorian mode. 2002 W. Melton & R. Weinstein Compl. Idiot's Guide playing Harmonica xiii. 142 If Ionian is bright, Lydian is brilliant. B. adj.² 1. Ancient History. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Ionians (see sense A. 1); Ionic. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands Ionic1483 Rhodiana1533 Candian1559 lesbian1559 Cretan1579 Ionian1579 Ortygian1582 Parianc1602 Lemnian1611 Carpathian1637 lesbic1659 Eubœan1660 Melian1684 Sciote1718 Minoan1830 Naxiote1859 Corfiote1877 Knossian1894 Siphnian1895 Cycladic1915 Leucadian1952 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [adjective] > southern > specific area Ionian1579 Volga German1941 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 621 Many of their kinges, and of the royal blood of the Arsacides, were borne of the Ionian and Milesian curtisans. 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course v. f. 61 Thales..was the author of the Ionian sect. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 37 The Capitall dressed on each side..in a spirall wreathing, which they call the Ionian Voluta. 1643 J. Ussher Geogr. & Hist. Disqvis. Asia ii. 8 The Ionian dialect. 1737 Universal Hist. II. i. xix. 559 Lycurgus passed over to the continent of Asia, that he might philosophize on the Ionian mode of life. 1758 J. Upton in E. Spenser Faerie Queene I. p. xxxiii The old Ionian language, as written in Homer's age. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 87 Xuthus..through his sons, Ion and Achæus..was considered as the forefather of the Achæan and the Ionian tribes. 1867 Freewill Baptist Q. Oct. 436 It [sc. Memphis] was visited by Thales, an Ionian philosopher some 600 years B. C. 1900 U.P. Mag. Feb. 68/1 Some hundreds of hardy Ionian oarsmen from Phocee. 1983 J. Hutchinson Lett. ii. 45 The Ionian alphabet became the classic alphabet of Greece. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 May 44/4 We get general pieces on hoplite and trireme warfare..and the Ionian Revolt. 2. Music. Originally (now historical): designating an ancient Greek tonos or scale inserted between the Dorian and the Phrygian in a semitonal series. In modern use: designating the octave-scale c–c′, divided harmonically at g, the 11th mode and having c as finalis. Esp. in Ionian mode, Ionian scale.In early use this mode was thought to have a cheerful effeminate character. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > medieval mode > authentic modes Aeolian1589 Ionian1589 authent1597 Dorian mode1603 authentic1609 Ionic1616 Aeolic mode1636 Locrian1753 hyperdorian1761 hyperionian1761 hyperlydian1761 Aeolian mode?1775 Ionian mode?1775 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > ancient Greek modes > specific Dorian mode1603 Locrian1753 hyperaeolian1761 hyperlydian1761 hypermixolydian1761 hyperphrygian1761 Ionian mode?1775 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 50 He regarded not the dainety Lydian, Iônian, or Æolian Melody: but the braue Dorian, and impetuous Phrygian Musique. a1771 T. Gray Notes on Plato in Wks. (1884) IV. 233 The Lydian, Syntono-Lydian, and Ionian harmonies are banished, as accommodated to the soft enervate passions. ?1775 W. Waring tr. J.-J. Rousseau Dict. Music 196 The ionian mode is the twelfth in order from flat to sharp, according to Alypius's numeration. 1852 A. H. Wehrhan tr. A. B. Marx Universal School of Music I. 347 It erects the Ionian scale of F upon its own tonic. 1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony ii. 35 At last, under the name of the Ionian mode, our modern scale of C. 1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music ii. 44 The white-note scales on C (Ionian mode) and A (Aeolian mode) were already our C major and A minor scales. 1986 College Music. Symp. 26 81 This scale is placed first in Bronson's pentatonic series because of its similarity to the Ionian mode. 2010 E. Sarath Music Theory through Improvisation viii. 140 The same holds for the fourth degree of the Ionian scale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). Ionianadj.¹n.² Brit. /ʌɪˈəʊnɪən/, U.S. /aɪˈoʊniən/ Forms: 1500s Iönian, 1500s– Ionian, 1600s Ionean. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Īonius , -an suffix; Greek Ἰόνιος , -an suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin Īonius, designating the part of the Mediterranean between Greece and Southern Italy, of or proper to this sea (sometimes also of or relating to the district Ionia, Ionic) or its etymon ancient Greek Ἰόνιος, designating the part of the Mediterranean between Greece and Southern Italy (explained by some ancient authors as the sea across which the mythical Io swam) + -an suffix. Compare French ionien (1624 as adjective, designating the sea, 1854 or earlier as noun; the source cited in quot. 1816 at sense B. is translated from an unpublished French manuscript). Compare earlier Ionian n.¹ and later Ionian adj.²With the form Ionean compare -ean suffix. With Ionian Sea (see sense A.) compare classical Latin Īonium mare, ancient Greek Ἰονία θάλασσα, Hellenistic Greek Ἰόνιον πέλαγος. A. adj.¹ Of, relating to, or designating the area, esp. the sea, between mainland Greece and southern Italy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > regions of Greece Macedonc1450 Olympian1523 Ionian?1556 Macedonian1556 Achaean1567 Peloponnesian1569 Molossian1587 Thessalian1594 Thracian1594 Olympic1597 Argive1598 Attic1599 isthmian1603 Pharsalian1605 Aonian1607 Attical1610 Phocian1614 Messenianc1615 Marathonian1623 Bœotic1851 Athoan1869 Thraco-Illyrian1931 Athonite1963 ?1556 N. Smyth in tr. Herodian Hist. sig. Ff.j^v Plinye..sayeth, that the Greekes deuyded the Ionian Sea, into the Sea of Sicile, and the Sea of Crete. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 66 I left the turmoyling dangers of the intricated Iles, of the Ionean and Adriaticall seas. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. 20 If Ovid in that straight Ionian Deep Was lost so hard, much more are we on Seas of larger Bounds. 1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health iii. 75 Charybdis rages in th' Ionian wave. 1767 C. Smart tr. Horace Epodes ix, in tr. Horace Wks. (new ed.) II. 197 The shallows of th'Ionian bay Shall leave your mastless deck distress'd, And break your very keel away. 1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 28 Under the roof of blue Ionian weather. 1846 C. White Three Years in Constantinople v. 139 British Ionian and Maltese subjects, who receive residence permits from the consulates. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 430/2 He obtained considerable naval successes in the Ionian Sea against the triumvirate. 1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular vii. 200 Work into Italy was handled by a separate unit at Monopoli on the Ionian shore. 1995 Holiday Which? Sept. 162/2 If your main interest is in Norman architecture concentrate on the Tyrrhenian coast, for baroque the Ionian coast and for classical the Mediterranean. B. n.² A native or inhabitant of the Ionian islands. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > Greek islands Rhodianc1450 Naxianc1487 Candian1549 Melian1550 Parian1550 Sciote1553 Cretan1579 Samian1579 Leucadian1615 Sciana1641 Siphnian1709 Septinsular1807 Ionian1816 Corfiote1835 Naxiote1859 1816 W. Walton tr. G. de Vaudoncourt Mem. Ionian Islands xi. 395 This formidable promontory is still venerated by the Ionians. 1898 J. McCarthy Story Gladstone xvii. 192 The Ionians had one uncompromising grievance. 1909 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Daily Herald 20 Jan. 3/5 (headline) Ionians shaken up. 1972 D. Dakin Unification of Greece xvii. 257 Aristotelis Valaoritis, an Ionian..entered the Greek parliament when the Ionian islands were joined to Greece. 2009 Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 15 May d1 Ionians eat more pasta, I think, than Italians. Compounds Ionian islands n. (with the) a chain of about forty Greek islands in the Ionian Sea, situated off the western coast of mainland Greece; (also in singular) one of these islands.The seven principal islands of this chain are Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Zakinthos, Paxos, Lefkas, and Kythira. Between 1815 and 1864 they constituted a British protectorate called the United States of the Ionian Islands. ΚΠ 1695 P. Hume Annot. Paradise Lost ii. 94 Ulysses,..Son of Laertes King of Ithaca and Dulichia, two small Ionian Islands. 1815 in Parl. Deb. (1816) 1st Ser. 32 297/1 The trading flag of the United States of the Ionian islands shall be acknowledged by all the Contracting Parties as the Flag of a free and independent State. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 14 Ionian Islands is the name given to the seven islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Paxo, and Cerigo, which are scattered along the coast of Epirus and of the Peloponnesus. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 513 The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George was founded..to reward the services of the inhabitants of Malta and the Ionian islands. 1991 Washington Post 20 Jan. (Book World) 4/4 Leucadia in the Ionian islands, [Lafcadio] Hearn's birthplace. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.²1542adj.¹n.²?1556
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