Boeotia

English

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Alternative forms

• Bœotia, Boiotia, Beotia

Etymology

From Latin Boeotia, from Ancient Greek Βοιωτία (Boiōtia).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /biːˈəʊʃə/

Proper noun

Boeotia

1. A district of Ancient Greece, formerly renowned for the proverbial stupidity of its inhabitants; now, a district in east Central Greece, situated on the peninsula, West of Euboea, North of Attica and Megaris, East of Phokis. Its present-day capital of the prefecture is Levadeia.

Derived terms

• Boeotian

Translations

a district in Greece

• Armenian: Բեովտիա (Beovtia)
• Chinese: 波奥提亚
• Dutch: Beotië
• Finnish: Boiotia
• French: Béotie (fr) f
• German: Böotien n

• Greek: Βοιωτία (el) f (Voiotía)
• Latin: Boeotia f
• Polish: Beocja (pl) f
• Russian: Бео́тия (Beótija)
• Serbo-Croatian: Beòtija f, Beòcija f
• Spanish: Beocia (es) f

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Latin

Proper noun

Boeōtia f (genitive Boeōtiae); first declension

1. Boeotia

References

Boeotia in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879