Boihaemum

• Boiohaemum, Boihemum, Boiemum, Boehemum, Boiohemum

Directly or via Ancient Greek Βουίαιμον (Bouíaimon), rendering Proto-Germanic *baiaz (“one of the Boii”) + *haimaz (“home”), designating the area abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter, now German Böhmen.^[1] The tribal name, Latin Bo(i)ī, is probably Gaulish *bouios (“cattle owner”), a relative adjective from Proto-Celtic *bāus (“ox, cow”), which continues Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”), or less likely *bʰeyh₂- (“to strike, hit”). Related to Bavaria.

First attested in Velleius (19 BC – c. AD 31).

• Uncertain:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bo.iˈ(ɦ)ae̯.mũː]
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bɔjˈjae̯.mũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [boˈjɛː.mum]

Boihaemum n sg (genitive Boihaemī); second declension

1. Bohemia (a cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic)

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

• Bo(h)ēmī, Boihaemī
• Bo(h)ēmia, Boihaemia

• Czechī, Cechī
• Czechia, Cechia
• Moravī
• Moravia

• “Boihaemum” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

• “Boii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Boihaemum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Boihēmum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.