Batavia
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Batavia, from Proto-Germanic *Batawjō.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Batavia
- (historical) Former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period.
- The land of the ancient Batavians or Batavi (part of the modern Netherlands).
- The Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 as a French client state.
- A city, the county seat of Genesee County, New York, United States.
- A village, the county seat of Clermont County, Ohio, United States.
- A township in Clermont County, Ohio, which surrounds the village.
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Translations edit
the land of the ancient Batavians
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the Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 as a French client state
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Noun edit
Batavia (plural Batavias)
- A variety of lettuce with broad flat leaves.
Classical Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
Proper noun edit
Batavia
- Netherlands (a historical kingdom in Western Europe)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Batavia, from Proto-Germanic *Batawjō. Doublet of Betuwe.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Batavia ?
- (historical) Former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period.
Descendants edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch Batavia, from Latin Batavia, from Proto-Germanic *Batawjō.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Batavia
- (historical) Former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period.
- (historical) Former name of Betawi, used during the Dutch East Indies period.
Further reading edit
- “Batavia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *Batawjō (“good island”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /baˈtaː.u̯i.a/, [bäˈt̪äːu̯iä] or IPA(key): /baˈta.u̯i.a/, [bäˈt̪äu̯iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /baˈta.vi.a/, [bäˈt̪äːviä]
- Note: the length of the vowel varies. [1]
Noun edit
Batā̆via f (genitive Batā̆viae); first declension
- The land of the Batā̆vī, situated around the modern city of Nijmegen.
- (New Latin) Netherlands (The main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located primarily in Western Europe bordering Germany and Belgium)
- (New Latin) Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten)
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | Batā̆via | Batā̆viae |
Genitive | Batā̆viae | Batā̆viārum |
Dative | Batā̆viae | Batā̆viīs |
Accusative | Batā̆viam | Batā̆viās |
Ablative | Batā̆viā | Batā̆viīs |
Vocative | Batā̆via | Batā̆viae |
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Descendants edit
- → Dutch: Batavia
- → Old High German: Pazauwa (various forms attested)
- Middle High German:
- German: Passau
- Middle High German:
References edit
- “Batavia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Batavia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish edit
Proper noun edit
Batavia f
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Batavia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014