Laconia

See also: Lacónia and Lacônia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λακωνία (Lakōnía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈkəʊ.ni.ə/

Proper noun

Laconia

1. A region in the southern Peloponnese, Greece, which has had Sparta as its capital for over 3,000 years.
2. A city, the county seat of Belknap County, New Hampshire; named for the Laconia Car Company, a railroad car manufacturer.
3. A town in Indiana.
4. An unincorporated community in Tennessee.

Related terms

• Laconian
• laconic

Translations

region in the southern Peloponnese

• Aromanian: Lãcunii f, Lãcunie f, Lacunii f, Lacunie f (indefinite), Lãcunia f, Lacunia f
• Catalan: Lacònia (ca) f
• Danish: Lakonien
• French: Laconie (fr)
• German: Lakonien (de)
• Greek: Λακωνία (el) (Lakonía)

  Ancient: Λᾰκωνῐκή f (Lakōnikḗ) (γῆ), Λᾰκεδαίμων f (Lakedaímōn)

• Italian: Laconia f
• Latin: Laconia f
• Portuguese: Lacónia f (Portugal), Lacônia f (Brazil)
• Russian: Лако́ния (ru) f (Lakónija)
• Serbo-Croatian: Làkōnija f
• Spanish: Laconia f
• Turkish: Lakonya

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈkɔ.nja/
• Rhymes: -ɔnja

Proper noun

Laconia f

1. Laconia

Related terms

• laconico

Latin

Alternative forms

• Lăcōnĭca

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λακωνία (Lakōnía). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) From the Ancient Greek expression "Λακωνική (Lakōnikḗ), sc. γῆ f (gê)" (the land of the Lacons), from Λάκων (Lákōn, “Laconian”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laˈkoː.ni.a/, [ɫ̪äˈkoːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈko.ni.a/, [läˈkɔːniä]

Proper noun

Lacōnia f sg (genitive Lacōniae); first declension

1. Laconia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lacōnia
Genitive	Lacōniae
Dative	Lacōniae
Accusative	Lacōniam
Ablative	Lacōniā
Vocative	Lacōnia

Related terms

• Lacō
• Lacōnicus
• Lacōnis

References

• “Laco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Laconia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Laconia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Proper noun

Laconia f

1. Obsolete spelling of Lacónia.