Boihaemum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Boiohaemum, Boihemum, Boiemum, Boehemum, Boiohemum === Etymology === Directly 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. 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 === Uncertain: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bo.iˈ(ɦ)ae̯.mũː] (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bɔjˈjae̯.mũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [boˈjɛː.mum] === Proper noun === Boihaemum n sg (genitive Boihaemī); second declension Bohemia (a cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only. ==== Synonyms ==== Bo(h)ēmī, Boihaemī Bo(h)ēmia, Boihaemia ==== Coordinate terms ==== Czechī, Cechī Czechia, Cechia Moravī Moravia === References === “Boihaemum” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present === Further reading === “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.