Ἰάων

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἰᾱ́ϝων (Iā́wōn)
• Ἴων (Íōn)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.ǎː.ɔːn/ → /iˈa.on/ → /iˈa.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.ǎː.ɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈa.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈa.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈa.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈa.on/

Noun

Ῐ̓ᾱ́ων • (Iā́ōn) m (genitive Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονος); third declension

1. an Ionian

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ῐ̓ᾱ́ων; τοῦ Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Ῐ̓ᾱ́ων ho Iā́ōn	τὼ Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονε tṑ Iā́one	οἱ Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονες hoi Iā́ones
Genitive	τοῦ Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονος toû Iā́onos	τοῖν Ῐ̓ᾱόνοιν toîn Iāónoin	τῶν Ῐ̓ᾱόνων tôn Iāónōn
Dative	τῷ Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονῐ tôi Iā́oni	τοῖν Ῐ̓ᾱόνοιν toîn Iāónoin	τοῖς Ῐ̓ᾱ́οσῐ / Ῐ̓ᾱ́οσῐν toîs Iā́osi(n)
Accusative	τὸν Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονᾰ tòn Iā́ona	τὼ Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονε tṑ Iā́one	τοὺς Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονᾰς toùs Iā́onas
Vocative	Ῐ̓ᾶον Iâon	Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονε Iā́one	Ῐ̓ᾱ́ονες Iā́ones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Ἰωνῐ́ᾱ (Iōníā)
• Ἰωνῐκός (Iōnikós)
• Ἰάς (Iás)

Descendants

• Greek: Ιάων (Iáon)

References

• “Ἰάων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἰάων”, 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
• Ἰάων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette