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Bolivia

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bəˈlɪvɪjə//
  • United States//boʊˈlɪvi.ə//
  • United States//bəˈlɪvi.ə//
  • Australia//bəˈlɪvi.ə//

A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia. Capitals: La Paz and Sucre.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia. Capitals: La Paz and Sucre.

  2. 2

    A small town, the county seat of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.

  3. 3

    historicalFormer name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.

  4. 4

    A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Etymology

Etymology tree Basque boluder. Proto-Basque *ibar Basque ibarder. Basque Bolibarbor. Spanish Bolívar Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek -εία (-eía)der. Spanish -ia Spanish Boliviabor. English Bolivia Borrowed from Spanish Bolivia (“land of Bolivar”), from the South American revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar + -ia (forming placenames), from the Spanish surname Bolívar, from Basque Bolibar, a village in Álava, Basque Country, Spain, from Basque bolu (“windmill”) + ibar (“valley”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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