English

Proper noun

Batavia

1. (historical) Former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period.
2. The land of the ancient Batavians or Batavi (part of the modern Netherlands).
3. The Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 as a French client state.

Related terms

• Batavi
• Batavian

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *Batawjō ‎(“good island”).

Noun

Batāvia f ‎(genitive Batāviae); first declension

1. The land of the Batāvī, situated around the modern city of Nijmegen.
2. (New Latin) The Netherlands (modern country).

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

• batāvus
• batāvicus

References

• Batavia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Batavia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

French

Noun

batavia f ‎(plural batavias)

1. Batavia lettuce