Batavia

See also: batavia and Batávia

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Batavia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *Batawjō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈteɪviə/

Proper noun

Batavia

1. (historical) Former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period.
2. The land of the ancient Batavians or Batavi (part of the modern Netherlands).
3. The Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 as a French client state.
4. A city, the county seat of Genesee County, New York, United States.
5. A village, the county seat of Clermont County, Ohio, United States.

Related terms

• Batavi
• Batavian

Translations

Jakarta during the Dutch East Indies period

• Italian: Batavia, Giacarta
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• Portuguese: Batávia f

the land of the ancient Batavians

• Portuguese: Batávia f
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the Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 as a French client state

• Portuguese: Batávia f
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Dutch

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Batavia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *Batawjō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑˈtaːvjɑ/

Proper noun

1. (historical) Former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period.

Descendants

• Indonesian: Batavia, Betawi

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch Batavia, from Latin Batavia, from Proto-Germanic *Batawjō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ta.via̯/
• Hyphenation: Ba‧ta‧via

Proper noun

1. (historical) Former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period.
2. (historical) Former name of Betawi, used during the Dutch East Indies period.

Further reading

• “Batavia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *Batawjō (“good island”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /baˈtaː.u̯i.a/, [bäˈt̪äːu̯iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /baˈta.vi.a/, [bäˈt̪äːviä]

Noun

Batāvia f (genitive Batāviae); first declension

1. The land of the Batāvī, situated around the modern city of Nijmegen.
2. (New Latin) The Netherlands (modern country).

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Batāvia	Batāviae
Genitive	Batāviae	Batāviārum
Dative	Batāviae	Batāviīs
Accusative	Batāviam	Batāviās
Ablative	Batāviā	Batāviīs
Vocative	Batāvia	Batāviae

Related terms

• batāvus
• batāvicus

References

• “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.