Ionicize
English
Etymology
Ionic + -ize
Verb
Ionicize (third-person singular simple present Ionicizes, present participle Ionicizing, simple past and past participle Ionicized)
- (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.
- 2012, Øivind Andersen, Dag T. T. Haug, Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry (page 57)