Ionicize

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English

Etymology

From Ionic +‎ -ize.

Verb

Ionicize (third-person singular simple present Ionicizes, present participle Ionicizing, simple past and past participle Ionicized)

  1. (transitive) To make Ionic.
    • 2012, Øivind Andersen, Dag T. T. Haug, Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry, page 57:
      Against this tendency to Ionicize the phonology taken over from Aeolic sources stands the case of the [] genitives, which are anomalous whether Ionian singers acquired these formations punctually (under the 'stacked' model) or through ongoing exchange and diffusion.