Batavia

Ultimately from Latin Batavia, from Proto-Germanic *Batawjō. Doublet of Betawi and Passau.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈteɪvi.ə/
• Rhymes: -eɪviə

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.
4. A city, the county seat of Genesee County, New York, United States.
5. A village, the county seat of Clermont County, Ohio, United States.
6. A township in Clermont County, Ohio, which surrounds the village.

• Batavi
• Batavian

Batavia (plural Batavias)

1. A variety of lettuce with broad flat leaves.

Borrowed from Latin Batavia.

Batavia

1. Netherlands (a historical kingdom in Western Europe)

From Latin Batavia, from Proto-Germanic *Batawjō. Doublet of Betuwe.

• IPA^(key): /bɑˈtaː.vi.aː/, [-vijaː]

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Batavia f

1. (historical) former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period

• Javindo: Batafia
• Petjo: Betawie
• → Caribbean Javanese: Betawi, mBetawi
• → Danish: Batavia
• → English: Batavia
• → French: Batavia
• → Indonesian: Batavia, Betawi
• → Javanese: ꦧꦠꦮꦶ (Batawi), ꦧꦼꦠꦮꦶ (Betawi)
• → Peranakan Indonesian: Betawi
• → Sundanese: Batawi

From Dutch Batavia, from Latin Batavia, from Proto-Germanic *Batawjō.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ta.via̯/
• Hyphenation: Ba‧ta‧via

Batavia

1. (historical) former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period
2. (historical) former name of Betawi, used during the Dutch East Indies period

• “Batavia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [baˈtaː.wi.a], [baˈta.wi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [baˈt̪aː.vi.a]
• Note: the length of the vowel varies. ^[1]

Batā̆via f (genitive Batā̆viae); first declension

1. The land of the Batā̆vī, situated around the modern city of Nijmegen.
2. (New Latin) Netherlands (the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located primarily in Western Europe bordering Germany and Belgium)
3. (New Latin) Netherlands (a country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

First-declension noun.

• batā̆vus
• batā̆vicus

• → Dutch: Batavia
  • Javindo: Batafia
  • Petjo: Betawie
  • → Caribbean Javanese: Betawi, mBetawi
  • → Danish: Batavia
  • → English: Batavia
  • → French: Batavia
  • → Indonesian: Batavia, Betawi
  • → Javanese: ꦧꦠꦮꦶ (Batawi), ꦧꦼꦠꦮꦶ (Betawi)
  • → Peranakan Indonesian: Betawi
  • → Sundanese: Batawi
• → Old High German: Pazauwa (various forms attested)
  • Middle High German:
    • German: Passau

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

• IPA^(key): /baˈtabja/ [baˈt̪a.β̞ja]
• Rhymes: -abja
• Syllabification: Ba‧ta‧via

Batavia f

1. Batavia

• “Batavia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024