Ἰόνιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.ó.ni.os/ → /iˈo.ni.os/ → /iˈo.ni.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.ó.ni.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈo.ni.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈo.ni.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈo.ni.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈo.ni.os/

Proper noun

Ῑ̓όνῐος • (Īónios) m (genitive Ῑ̓ονῐ́ου); second declension

1. the Ionian Gulf; the Ionian Sea

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ῑ̓όνῐος; τοῦ Ῑ̓ονῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῑ̓όνῐος ho Īónios
Genitive	τοῦ Ῑ̓ονῐ́ου toû Īoníou
Dative	τῷ Ῑ̓ονῐ́ῳ tôi Īoníōi
Accusative	τὸν Ῑ̓όνῐον tòn Īónion
Vocative	Ῑ̓όνῐε Īónie
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ιόνιος (Iónios)
• Turkish: İyonya

References

• “Ἰόνιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἰόνιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ἰόνιος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014