ionic adjective
i·on·ic
The adjective form of ionic is ionic
I iDefinitions
- adjective ionic relating to ions 1
- adjective ionic Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2). 1
- adjective ionic Prosody. noting or employing a foot consisting either of two long followed by two short syllables (greater Ionic) or of two short followed by two long syllables (lesser Ionic) 1
- adjective ionic noting or pertaining to that variety of the eastern branch of the early Greek alphabet that was used for the writing of the Ionic dialect and that became the variety used for all dialects of Greek from the 4th century b.c. to the present. 1
- adjective ionic of or relating to Ionia or the Ionians. 1
- adjective ionic of, relating to, or occurring in the form of ions 0
- adjective ionic of, denoting, or relating to one of the five classical orders of architecture, characterized by fluted columns and capitals with scroll-like ornaments 0
- adjective ionic of or relating to Ionia, its inhabitants, or their dialect of Ancient Greek 0
- adjective ionic of, relating to, designating, or employing Ionics in verse 0
- adjective ionic of Ionia or its people or culture; Ionian 0
- adjective ionic of Ionic (the language variety) 0
- adjective ionic designating or of a classical (Greek or Roman) order of architecture, distinguished by ornamental scrolls (spiral volutes) on the capitals 0
- adjective ionic of the Ionic of Greek and Latin prosody 0
- adjective ionic of, or being in the form of, an ion or ions 0