Bolivia

专有名词
/bəˈlɪvi.ə/|/bəˈlɪvɪjə/    /bəˈlɪvi.ə/|/boʊˈlɪvi.ə/|/bəˈlɪvi.ə/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia. Capitals: La Paz and Sucre.
  2. A small town, the county seat of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.
    — Shaneequa Vereen, who grew up in the Brunswick County community of Bolivia, is currently a Public Affairs Officer and Live Mission Commentator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston, Texas. When you compare the numbers, it is quite a jump. When Shaneequa graduated from South Brunswick High School in 2009, the census put Bolivia’s population at around 150 people. Now she works at an agency that employs more than 17,000.
  3. Former name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador. historical
  4. A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

词源

Etymology tree
Basque boluder.
Proto-Basque *ibar
Basque ibarder.
Basque Bolibarbor.
Spanish Bolívar
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
New Latin -ius
New Latin -ia
New Latin Boliviabor.
English Bolivia
Borrowed from Spanish and New Latin 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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