English

Alternative forms

• Bœotia, Boiotia, Beotia

Proper noun

Boeotia

1. A district of Ancient Greece, formerly renowned for the proverbial stupidity of its inhabitants; now, a district in east Central Greece, situated on the peninsula, west of Euboea, north of Attica and Megaris, and east of Phokis. The present-day capital of the prefecture is Levadeia.

Derived terms

• Boeotian

Translations

Latin

Proper noun

Boeōtia f ‎(genitive Boeōtiae); first declension

1. Boeotia

References

Boeotia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Boeotia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.