Bohemia

Latinized translation of French Bohême, from Late Latin Boiohaemum, compound of Boio- (“the Boii”), the Celtic tribe previously inhabiting the area and Germanic *haimaz (“home”) (more at home). The endonym is from Proto-Celtic *boyos and could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”) (compare Proto-Celtic *bāus (“cattle”), genitive *bowos), a reference to cattle owners, or from *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit”), i.e. “warrior, strong hitter” (compare Proto-Celtic *binati (“to strike, hit”)).

Bohemia was abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter.^[1] Related to Bavaria.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /boʊˈhimiə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːmiə
• Hyphenation: Bo‧he‧mia

Bohemia

2. A cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.
3. A place name elsewhere:
   1. A place in England:
      1. An inner suburb of Hastings, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ8010).
      2. A hamlet in Redlynch parish, south-east Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU2019).
   2. A place in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
      2. A township in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
      3. A township in Knox County, Nebraska.
      4. A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
      5. A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Islip, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

• Bohemian
• bohemium

• Bohemia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Bohemia (plural Bohemias)

1. A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
2. The world or social milieu of such bohemians.
   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 96:

     There was about him a certain bar-room grandiloquence that fitted easily with the shabby Bohemia of Cripps's studio, but which the curate, unused to the literary vocabulary, found exceedingly impressive.

• bohemia

• hobohemia

• Moravia
• Silesia
• Sudetenland
• Czechia

Bohemia

1. definite nominative singular of Bohemi

• Bohaemia, Boemia, Boihemia, Boihaemia, *Boiohaemia

From Bohēmī +‎ -ia. More at Boihaemum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [boˈ(ɦ)eː.mi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [boˈɛː.mi.a]

Bohēmia f sg (genitive Bohēmiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Bohemia (a cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic)
2. (Medieval Latin) a geographic region of Central Europe, inhabited by the Czechs

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Boihaemum
• Czechia, Cechia

• Bohēmī
• bohēmicus

• → English: Bohemia
• → French: Bohême
• → Italian: Boemia
• → Spanish: Bohemia

Internationalism; compare English Bohemia, ultimately from Late Latin Boiohaemum. By surface analysis, bohema +‎ -ia.

• IPA^(key): /bɔˈxɛ.mja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛmja
• Syllabification: Bo‧he‧mia

Bohemia f

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

   Synonym: Czechy

• Bohemia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /boˈemja/ [boˈe.mja]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -emja
• Syllabification: Bo‧he‧mia

Bohemia f

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

• “Bohemia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025