The corpus record

Ἰωνικός

*ionikos

Ionic, Ionian

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6 · 0.56/10k
Histories 7 · 0.38/10k
Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

Ἰωνικός · Iōnikos — LSJ

Ionic, Ionian

Ionic, Ionian: -κοί, οἱ, = Ἴωνες, Philostr. VS 1.21.5: Ἰωνικόν (sc. ὑπόδημα), τό, a kind of

shoe, effeminate, in the Ionic fashion, softly, effeminately

shoe, Herod. 7.59; esp. with the connotation, effeminate, Ar. Pax 46, Pl.Com. 69.14, etc. Adv. -κῶς in the Ionic fashion, i.e. softly, effeminately, Ar. Th. 163.

2 Ionic

Ἰ. μέτρον, συζυγία, Ionic, defined in Heph. 11, cf. D.H. Comp. 4, etc.; πούς Heph. 1.9, cf. Aristid.Quint. 1.15: -κά, τά, poem in this style, Ath. 14.620e. Adv. -κῶς,, prob. in D.H. Dem. 43.

3 Ionic dialect

Ἰ. ἔθος, of the Ionic dialect, A.D. Pron. 74.9. Adv. -κῶς Sch. Porph. Abst. 2.36: Comp. -ώτερον A.D. Adv. 135.1.

In the wild

Ἰωνικῆς · Iōnikēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.11 (DIORISIS sentence 1051)
Ἰωνικούς · Iōnikous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 187)
Ἰωνική · Iōnikē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 86)
Ἰωνικὴ · Iōnikē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 98)
Ἰωνική · Iōnikē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 84)
Ἰωνικὴν · Iōnikēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.7 (DIORISIS sentence 7059)

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Where it came from

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