Laconia

[ luh-koh-nee-uh ]

/ ləˈkoʊ ni ə /

an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.

a city in central New Hampshire.

OTHER WORDS FROM Laconia

La·co·ni·an, adjective, noun

At the date of Mnasippus's death he chanced to be off Sphagiae in Laconian territory.

Hellenica |Xenophon
It is curious to observe that the great Laconian lawgiver arranged the sacrifices differently to those of Rome.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume II |Aubrey Stewart & George Long
It is curious, too, that Athenian victors should always occur in juxtaposition with Laconian.

Problems in Greek history |John Pentland Mahaffy
In the Laconian dialect γερωια was its name; we also find γεροντευειν 'to be a senator'.

Cato Maior de Senectute |Marcus Tullius Cicero

Effugia cervitutis et doloris sunt, as that Laconian lad cast himself headlong, Non serviam, aiebat puer; to be freed of misery.

Curiosities of Medical Experience |J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Laconian

/ (ləˈkəʊnɪən) /

a native or inhabitant of Laconia, the ancient Greek country of which Sparta was the capital

of or relating to Laconia or its inhabitants

Laconia

/ (ləˈkəʊnɪə) /

an ancient country of S Greece, in the SE Peloponnese, of which Sparta was the capital: corresponds to the present-day department of Lakonia