Boeotia

See also: Bœotia

English

Alternative forms

• Bœotia, Boiotia, Beotia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /biːˈəʊʃə/

Proper noun

Boeotia

2. A historical region and modern regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism. Capital: 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

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 (a historical region and modern regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism)

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