aeolic









aeolic


noun

  1. the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.

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. Aeolian2(def 1).

noun, adjective

  1. Aeolian.

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Aeolians or their dialect

noun

  1. one of four chief dialects of Ancient Greek, spoken chiefly in Thessaly, Boeotia, and Aeolis

adjective, noun

  1. a variant spelling of Aeolic
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