Boudicca

Boudicca

1. Alternative form of Boudica.
   • 2023 April 2, David Barnett, quoting Duncan Mackay, “Boudicca returns as a 21st-century feminist – 2,000 years after her death”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Mackay says: “There is almost a mythological aspect to Boudicca, and she’s sometimes seen in the same way as King Arthur, but we know Boudicca was real, we just don’t know a huge amount about her.

• Boadica
• Boudicēa, Bouducēa, Boadicēa

Borrowed from Proto-Celtic *Boudīkā, from *boudīkos (“victorious”). Cognate with Welsh Buddug.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [buːˈdɪk.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [buˈd̪ik.ka]

Boudicca f sg (genitive Boudiccae); first declension

1. Boudica (queen of the Iceni tribe)
   • c. 98 CE, Tacitus, Agricola 16
   • c. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 14.31

First-declension noun, singular only.

• English: Boudica, Boudicca, Boadicea, Boudicea
• Norwegian Bokmål: Boudicca, Boadicea, Boudica

• Boudicca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Boadicea, Boudica

From Latin Boudicca, from Gaulish *Boudīkā, from Proto-Celtic *Boudīkā, from Proto-Celtic *boudīkos (“victorious”), from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“booty, victory”).

• IPA^(key): /buːˈdɪkːa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪkːa
• Hyphenation: Bou‧dic‧ca

Boudicca

1. Boudica (a queen of the British Iceni tribe that led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire)

• “Boudicca” in Store norske leksikon