Boeotia

See also: Bœotia

English

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Boeotia

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Alternative forms

• Bœotia, Boiotia, Beotia

Etymology

From Latin Boeotia, from Ancient Greek Βοιωτία (Boiōtía).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /biːˈəʊʃə/

Proper noun

Boeotia

1. A district of Ancient Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism; now, a district in east Central Greece, situated on the peninsula, west of Euboea, north of Attica and Megaris, and east of Phocis. The present-day capital of the prefecture is Livadeia.

Derived terms

• Boeotian

Translations

a district in Greece

Armenian: Բեովտիա (Beovtia) Catalan: Beòcia f Chinese: Mandarin: 波奧提亞 / 波奥提亚 (Bō'àotíyà) Danish: Bøotien Dutch: Beotië (nl) Finnish: Boiotia French: Béotie (fr) f German: Böotien (de) n Greek: Βοιωτία (el) f (Voiotía) Ancient: Βοιωτία f (Boiōtía) Hungarian: Boiótia Italian: Beozia f, Aonia f Latin: Boeotia f Polish: Beocja (pl) f Portuguese: Beócia (pt) f Russian: Бео́тия (ru) (Beótija) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: Beòtija f, Beòcija (sh) f Spanish: Beocia (es) f

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Boeotia

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Alternative forms

• Bœōtia

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βοιωτία (Boiōtía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /boe̯ˈoː.ti.a/, [boe̯ˈoːt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /beˈot.t͡si.a/, [beˈɔt̪ː͡s̪iä]

Proper noun

Boeōtia f sg (genitive Boeōtiae); first declension

1. Boeotia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Boeōtia
genitive	Boeōtiae
dative	Boeōtiae
accusative	Boeōtiam
ablative	Boeōtiā
vocative	Boeōtia

Related terms

• Boeōticus
• Boeōtis
• Boeōtius
• Boeōtus

Further reading

• “Boeotia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Boeotia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Boeotia, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “Boeotia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Boeotia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly