Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἰάϝων ‎(Iáwōn)
• Ἰάων ‎(Iáōn)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /íon/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /íon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /íon/

Proper noun

Ἴων • ‎(Íōn) m ‎(genitive Ἴωνος); third declension

1. Ion, the mythological ancestor of the Ionian people
2. an Ancient Greek male name

Noun

Ἴων • ‎(Íōn) m ‎(genitive Ἴωνος); third declension

1. one of the Ionians
2. an inhabitant of Ionia

Inflection

The personal name does not take a definite article.

Related terms

• Ἰάς ‎(Iás)

Derived terms

• Ἰωνία ‎(Iōnía)
• Ἰωνικός ‎(Iōnikós)

Descendants

• Greek:
  • Ίων ‎(Íon)
  • Ίωνας ‎(Íonas)
  • plural: Ίωνες ‎(Íones)
• Latin: Ion (plural Iones)
• Old Persian: 𐎹𐎢𐎴 ‎(Yauna-, “Ionian; Greek”)
• Turkish: İon

References

• Ἴων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἴων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «Ἴων» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014