💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ionic greek"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| aeolicnoun | An ancient Greek dialect spoken in Boeotia, Thessalia, Asia Minor and the island of Lesbos. |
| attic greeknoun | The dialect of Ancient Greek used in Attica, the region surrounding Athens, from 500 to 300 B.C.E., closely related to Ionic Greek and a main contributor to Koine. The language of Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Xenophon, etc. |
| homeric greeknoun | (linguistics, classics) a dialect of Ancient Greek used by Homer in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns consisting primarily of the Ionian and Aeolic Greek dialects |
| boeotiannoun | (historical) Pertaining to Boeotia. |
| eubœannoun | Obsolete spelling of Euboean. [An inhabitant of Euboea in central Greece.] |
| euboeannoun | Of or pertaining to the island of Euboea. |
| koinenoun | The “common” Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 B.C.E. and 300 C.E. (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek. |
| hellenicnoun | Of or relating to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks). |
| byzantine greeknoun | Collectively, the continuum of forms of the Greek language as written and spoken during the time of the Byzantine Empire (C.E. 330–1453), preceded by Koine Greek and Early Medieval Greek and succeeded by Late Medieval Greek to Modern Greek. (ISO 639-3 code: grc shared with Classical Greek.) |
| euboeanoun | An island of Greece, the second-largest, just off the eastern coast of Boeotia, in the Aegean Sea. |
| middle greeknoun | Byzantine Greek |
| old ionicnoun | The older form of the Greek Ionic dialect, used up until circa 600 BC. |
| ancient greecenoun | The civilization that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BCE (including the first two European civilizations, Minoan and Mycenaean), known as the cradle of Western civilization. |
| eretrianoun | (historical) A town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf. It was an important polis in the 6th/5th century BC. |
| modern greeknoun | The Greek language as spoken by the Greek people since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It was written using polytonic script until 1982, when this was officially dropped in favour of monotonic. |
| atticismnoun | (singular only) The prestige dialect of Classical Greek, as spoken and written by the inhabitants of Attica (chiefly Athens) in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.; Attic Greek. |
| new greeknoun | Synonym of Modern Greek. |
| hellenistic koinenoun | Synonym of Koine (the Greek dialect of Hellenistic times) |
| doricnoun | Relating to one of the Greek orders of architecture, distinguished by its simplicity and solidity. |
| medieval greeknoun | Collectively, the continuum of forms of the Greek language as written and spoken during medieval times, preceded by Hellenistic Koine Greek and succeeded by Modern Greek |
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