Boeotia

• Bœotia, Boiotia, Beotia

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /biːˈəʊʃə/

Boeotia

1. A district of Ancient Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism; now, a district in east Central Greece, situated on the peninsula, west of Euboea, north of Attica and Megaris, and east of Phocis. The present-day capital of the prefecture is Livadeia.

• Boeotian

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βοιωτία (Boiōtía).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /boe̯ˈoː.ti.a/, [boe̯ˈoːt̪iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /beˈot.t͡si.a/, [beˈɔt̪ː͡s̪iä]

Boeōtia f sg (genitive Boeōtiae); first declension

1. Boeotia

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “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 William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly