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

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

Alternative forms

• Bœōtia

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βοιωτία (Boiōtía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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.

Case	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 - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “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