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

• Bœōtia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βοιωτία (Boiōtía).

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

Boeōtia f sg (genitive Boeōtiae); first declension

1. Boeotia

First-declension noun, singular only.

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• Boeotia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Boeotia”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 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