- Βοιωτός
- ΒοιωτόςMeaning: people's name, mostly pl. Βοιωτοί (Il.).Other forms: sing. mostly Βοιώτιος (s. K. Meister Hom. Kunstspr. 14)Compounds: Βοιωτάρχης; Βοιωτιουργής.Derivatives: Βοιωτία landschaft in Greece; βοιωτικός (D. S.); f. Βοιωτίς (X.). Denomin. βοιωτιάζω (-ίζω) `side with the B., speak b.' (Aeschin.).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Compared with the name of the moeuntain Βοῖον ὄρος in northern Epirus (Schulze, Gesch. lat. Eigennamen 30), foll. Krahe IF 57, 121 Illyrian; s. Kretschmer, Glotta 30 (1943) 157; cf. Pok. 117. Not with Radermacher, Rh. Mus. 89 (1936) 192 as "Rinderland" to βοώτης etc.
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.