The corpus record

Ἰάς

*ias · ἡ

Ionic, the Ionian flower

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Where it lives

Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
Histories 11 · 0.6/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6 · 0.56/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

Ionic

Adj. fem. Ionic, στρατιή, ἐσθής, Hdt. 5.33, 87; [γυνή] Id. 1.92; τῇ Ἰάδι συγγενεία Th. 4.61; διάλεκτος A.D. Adv. 189.5, Str. 8.1.2; γλῶττα ibid.: as Subst., Luc. Hist.Conscr. 16.

2 the Ionian flower

the Ionian flower, = ἴον, Nic. Fr. 74.2. [ῐ, but ῑ in arsi, App.Anth. 2.21.]

In the wild

Ἰὰς · Ias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 244)
Ἰάδι · Iadi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1062)
Ἰάδι · Iadi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1067)
Ἰάδι · Iadi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3547)
Ἰάδι · Iadi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3552)
Ἰάδα · Iada Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5857)

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Where it came from

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