Batavia

From Latin Batavia, from Proto-Germanic *Batawjō.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈteɪviə/

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 in New York, USA, and the county seat of Genesee County.
5. A village in Ohio, USA, and the county seat of Clermont County.

• Batavi
• Batavian

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /baˈtaː.wi.a/

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).

First declension.

• batāvus
• batāvicus

• 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