Boeotia

== English == === Alternative forms === Bœotia, Boiotia, Beotia === Etymology === From Latin Boeotia, from Ancient Greek Βοιωτία (Boiōtía). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /biːˈəʊʃə/ === Proper noun === Boeotia A historical region and modern regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism. Capital: Livadeia. ==== Derived terms ==== Boeotian ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === Bœōtia === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βοιωτία (Boiōtía). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [boe̯ˈoː.ti.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [beˈɔt.t͡si.a] === Proper noun === Boeōtia f sg (genitive Boeōtiae); first declension Boeotia (a historical region and modern regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. ==== Related terms ==== === 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, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011 “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