Etymology

Boadicea

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Latin Boudicca ← Proto-Celtic *Boudīkā
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The story

  1. Proto-Celtic · derived from*Boudīkā
  2. Latin · derived fromBoudicca
  3. English todayBoadicea

From a medieval misreading of Classical Latin Boudicca, a transcription of Proto-Celtic *Boudīkā.

Words from the same roots

LatinBoudicca all →

Boudica

Proto-Celtic*Boudīkā all →

Boudica

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.