# Ion
## English
### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek Ἴων (Íōn).

#### Proper noun

Ion
* (Greek mythology) Son of Creusa and Xuthus, and the ancestor of Ionian people.
* (philosophy) Ion of Chios, a Greek writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher of the Pythagorean school

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Romanian Ion.

#### Proper noun

Ion (plural Ions)
* A surname from Romanian.

##### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Ion is the 37029th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 603 individuals. Ion is most common among White (97.18%) individuals.

### Further reading

* Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ion”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 231.

### See also

* Ion Creangă

### Anagrams

* oni, NOI, Ino, ONI, NIO, -ino

## Basque
### Etymology

A non-standard spelling of Jon, the sequence io stands for /i.o/.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Navarro-Lapurdian) /ɟon/ [ɟõn]
* IPA: (Southern) /jon/ [jõn]
* IPA: (Gipuzkoan) /jon/ [jõn]
* IPA: (Biscayan) /d͡ʒon/ [d͡ʒõn]
* IPA: (Navarrese) /jon/ [jõn]
* Rhymes: -on
* Hyphenation: Ion

### Proper noun

Ion anim
* (proscribed) Alternative spelling of Jon

#### Declension
## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from English ion, indirectly from Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión, “wandering”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /iˈoːn/, /i̯oːn/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

Ion n (mixed, genitive Ions, plural Ionen)
* (physics, chemistry) ion (an atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge)

#### Related terms

* Kation
* Anion
* Zwitterion
* Metallion
* Carbanion
* Carbeniumion

### Further reading

* “Ion” in Duden online
* “Ion” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰώ (Iṓ).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈiː.oːn/, [ˈiːoːn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈi.on/, [ˈiːon]

#### Proper noun

Īōn f sg (genitive Īōnis); third declension
* Alternative form of Īō (“Io”)

##### Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

### Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek Ἴων (Íōn).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈi.oːn/, [ˈioːn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈi.on/, [ˈiːon]

#### Proper noun

Iōn m sg (genitive Iōnis); third declension
* A river of Thessaly rising in the Cambunii mountains

##### Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

### Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek Ἴων (Íōn).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈi.oːn/, [ˈioːn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈi.on/, [ˈiːon]

#### Proper noun

Iōn m sg (genitive Iōnis); third declension
* Ionian

##### Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

### References

* “Ion”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## Middle English
### Proper noun

Ion
* John, Jon
** 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… Maister [Ion Aston] taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende. Also Filip of Repintoun whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto. And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew. And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* Ioan

### Etymology

From Ioan, from Old Church Slavonic Іѡаннъ (Ioannŭ), from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), a contraction of the Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [iˈon]
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Ion m (genitive/dative lui Ion, female equivalent Ioana)
* a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English John

#### Derived terms

* Ionuț (nickname)
* Ionescu