Iberia

See also: Ibéria, Ibèria, and iberia

English

Pronunciation

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

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^[1]:

     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 and town in Missouri.
4. A census-designated place in Ohio.

Derived terms

• Iberia Parish
• New Iberia

Related terms

• Iberian
• iberis

Translations

region south of the Pyrenees

• Catalan: Ibèria f
• Czech: Ibérie f
• Danish: Iberiske Halvø
• Dutch: Iberië (nl), Iberisch Schiereiland (nl)
• French: Ibérie (fr) f
• Galician: Iberia (gl) f
• German: Iberien (de), die Iberische Halbinsel
• Greek:

  Ancient: Ἰβηρία f (Ibēría)

• Irish: an Ibéir f
• Japanese: イベリア (iberia)
• Latin: Hibēria f
• Marathi: आय्बेरिया m (āyberiyā)
• Portuguese: Ibéria f
• Russian: Ибе́рия (ru) f (Ibérija)
• Spanish: Iberia
• Swedish: Pyreneiska halvön, Iberiska halvön (sv)
• Turkish: İberya

Etymology 2

Iberia and Colchis

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

Alternative forms

• Iveria

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.

Synonyms

• Caucasian Iberia

Translations

ancient region of Georgia

• Armenian: Վիրք (Virkʿ)
• Catalan: Ibèria f
• Czech: Ibérie f
• Dutch: Iberië (nl)
• French: Ibérie (fr) f
• Georgian: იბერია (iberia)
• German: Iberien (de) n, Iberia n
• Greek: Ιβηρία f (Iviría)

  Ancient Greek: Ἰβηρία f (Ibēría)

• Irish: an Ibéir f
• Latin: Hibēria f
• Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭥𐭰𐭠𐭭‎ (Wiruzān)
• Parthian: 𐭅𐭉𐭓𐭔𐭍‎ (Vīrčān)
• Portuguese: Ibéria f
• Russian: Ибе́рия (ru) f (Ibérija), Иве́рия (ru) f (Ivérija)
• Spanish: Iberia caucásica, Iberia del Este, Iberia asiática

See also

• Colchis
• Albania, Caucasian Albania

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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)

Related terms

• iberico

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ibēria f sg (genitive Ibēriae); first declension

1. Alternative spelling of Hibēria

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

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

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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)

Derived terms

• Iberia asiática
• Iberia caucásica
• Iberia del Este

 

Related terms

• ibérico
• iberio
• ibero, íbero
• Iberoamérica
• península ibérica

See also

• Hispania

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Iberia f

1. Iberia (Caucasian Iberia)