Laconia

From Ancient Greek Λακωνία (Lakōnía).

• IPA^(key): /ləˈkəʊ.ni.ə/

Laconia

2. A historical region of Ancient Greece, which has had Sparta as its capital for over 3,000 years.
4. A regional unit of Peloponnese, Greece.
5. A city, the county seat of Belknap County, New Hampshire; named for the Laconia Car Company, a railroad car manufacturer.
6. A town in Indiana.
7. An unincorporated community in Tennessee.

• Laconian
• laconic

• IPA^(key): /laˈkɔ.nja/
• Rhymes: -ɔnja

Laconia f

1. Laconia (a historical region of Ancient Greece, which has had Sparta as its capital for over 3,000 years)
2. Laconia (a regional unit of Peloponnese, Greece)

• laconico

• Lăcōnĭca

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λακωνία (Lakōnía). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) From the Ancient Greek expression "Λακωνική (Lakōnikḗ), sc. γῆ f (gê)" (the land of the Lacons), from Λάκων (Lákōn, “Laconian”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫaˈkoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [laˈkɔː.ni.a]

Lacōnia f sg (genitive Lacōniae); first declension

1. Laconia (a historical region of Ancient Greece, which has had Sparta as its capital for over 3,000 years)
2. Laconia (a regional unit of Peloponnese, Greece)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Lacō
• Lacōnicus
• Lacōnis

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

Laconia f

1. obsolete spelling of Lacónia