Iberia

See also: Ibéria, Ibèria, and iberia

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK), IPA(key): /aɪˈbɪəɹ.i.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪəriə

Etymology 1

From Latin Iberia, from Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēría), after the river Ἴβηρος (Íbēros), which itself came from a native Celtiberian name for the river *Ibēr (modern Spanish Ebro).

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Proper noun

Iberia

  1. The region of Europe south of the Pyrenees, consisting of Andorra, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
      Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
  2. A particular Spanish airline.
  3. A city/town in Missouri.
  4. A CDP in Ohio.
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Etymology 2

Iberia and Colchis

From Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēría). Possibly from the same source as Old Armenian Վիրք (Virkʿ).

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Proper noun

Iberia

  1. (historical) Antique and Byzantine name for the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli in Eastern Europe, located east of Colchis, corresponding roughly to the eastern parts of present-day Georgia.
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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈbɛrja/
  • Hyphenation: I‧bè‧ria

Proper noun

Iberia f

  1. Iberia (European peninsula, consisting of Portugal and Spain)
  2. Iberia (Caucasian Iberia)

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /iˈbeː.ri.a/, [ɪˈbeː.ri.a]

Proper noun

Ibēria f (genitive Ibēriae); first declension

  1. Alternative spelling of Hibēria

Declension

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
Nominative Ibēria
Genitive Ibēriae
Dative Ibēriae
Accusative Ibēriam
Ablative Ibēriā
Vocative Ibēria
Locative Ibēriae

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈbeɾja/, [iˈβeɾja]

Etymology 1

From Latin Iberia, from Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēría), after the river Ἶβηρος (Îbēros), which itself came from a native Celtiberian name for the river *Ibēr (modern Ebro).

Proper noun

Iberia f

  1. Iberia (European peninsula, consisting of Portugal and Spain)

See also

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Iberia f

  1. Iberia (Caucasian Iberia)
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