Boihaemum
Latin
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editEtymology
editDirectly or via Ancient Greek Βουίαιμον (Bouíaimon), rendering Proto-Germanic *baiaz (“one of the Boii”) + *haimaz (“home”), designating the area abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter, now German Böhmen.[1] The tribal name, Latin Bo(i)ī, is probably Gaulish *bouios (“cattle owner”), a relative adjective from Proto-Celtic *bāus (“ox, cow”), which continues Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”), or less likely *bʰeyh₂- (“to strike, hit”). Related to Bavaria.
First attested in Velleius (19 BC – c. AD 31).
Pronunciation
edit- Uncertain:
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /bo.iˈhae̯.mum/, [boiˈ(ɦ)äe̯mʊ̃ˑ]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /boi̯ˈi̯ae̯.mum/, [bɔi̯ˈi̯äe̯mʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /boˈje.mum/, [boˈjɛːmum]
Proper noun
editBoihaemum n sg (genitive Boihaemī); second declension
- roughly the present Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic)
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Boihaemum |
Genitive | Boihaemī |
Dative | Boihaemō |
Accusative | Boihaemum |
Ablative | Boihaemō |
Vocative | Boihaemum |
Synonyms
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editReferences
edit- “Boihaemum” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Further reading
edit- “Boii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Boihaemum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Boihēmum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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