Boca Raton
Meaning
Proper Noun
- city Palm Beach County (county) Florida (state) USA (country)
- ; lagoon Palm Beach County (county) Florida (state) USA (country)
Related
Similar words
- Bocaratone
- Boca Ratone Lagoon, Boca Ratone Sound, Boca Ratone Sounde
Origin
- From Bocaratone, from Boca Ratone Lagoon, from Spanish Boca de Ratones, from boca+ratone.
- Though named after Boca de Ratones, that region is actually in Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA; not Palm Beach County. Later English cartographers replaced the Spanish location at Rio Seco with Boca Ratone Sounde, where a lagoon was located, now called Lake Boca Raton.
- mooring lines.
- is mistaken for rata, and boca is "mouth". This pertains to the local belief that the area hosted a pirate's lair (rats' lair), leading the city to have a pirate ship on the city seal.
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