Hellenic vs Ionic

Hellenic

name
  • The Greek language and its dialects from the earliest records (Linear B inscriptions, about 1600-1300 B.C.E.) to the present Modern Greek. 

adj
  • Of or relating to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks). 

  • Of or relating to the ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period. 

Ionic

name
  • A sub-dialect of the Attic-Ionic dialectal group of Ancient Greek consisting of Old Ionic and New Ionic. 

noun
  • A four-syllable metrical unit of light-light-heavy-heavy (‿ ‿ — —) that occurs in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. 

adj
  • Synonym of Ionian; of or relating to Ionia or the Ionians 

  • of an order of classical Greek architecture whose distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. 

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