Iberia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK), IPA: /aɪˈbɪə(ɹ).iə/, X-SAMPA: /aI"bI@(r\).ia/
• Rhymes: -ɪəriə

Etymology 1

From Latin Iberia, from Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēria), after the river Ἴβηρος (Ibēros), which itself came from a native Ibero-Celtic name for the river *Ibēr (modern Spanish Ebro).

Iberia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Iberian Peninsula

Proper noun

Iberia

1. The region of Europe south of the Pyrenees, consisting of Andorra, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, 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.

Related terms

• Iberian

Translations

region south of the Pyrenees

• Catalan: Ibèria (ca) f
• Danish: Iberiske Halvø (da)
• Dutch: Iberië (nl), Iberisch Schiereiland (nl)
• French: Ibérie (fr) f
• German: Iberien (de), die Iberische Halbinsel (de)

• Japanese: イベリア (ja) (iberia)
• Marathi: आय्बेरिया (mr) (āyberiyā) m
• Portuguese: Ibéria (pt) f
• Russian: Иберия (ru) (Ibérija) f
• Spanish: Iberia (es)

Etymology 2

Iberia

From Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēria). Possibly from Old Armenian Վիրք (Virkʿ).

Caucasian Iberia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Caucasian Iberia

Alternative forms

• Iveria

Proper noun

Iberia

1. (historical) Antic and Byzantine name of the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli located east of Colchis, corresponding roughly to the eastern parts of present-day Georgia.

Synonyms

• Caucasian Iberia

See also

• Colchis
• Albania, Caucasian Albania

Translations

ancient region of Georgia

• Armenian: Վիրք (hy) (Virk’)
• Catalan: Ibèria (ca) f
• Dutch: Iberië (nl)
• French: Ibérie (fr) f
• Georgian: იბერია (ka) (iberia)
• German: Iberien (de) n, Iberia (de) n

• Greek: Ιβηρία (el) (Iviría) f

  Ancient Greek: Ἰβηρία (Ibēria) f

• Latin: Iberia (la)
• Russian: Иберия (ru) (Ibérija) f, Иверия (ru) (Ivérija) f
• Spanish: Iberia caucásica (es), Iberia del Este (es), Iberia asiática (es)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /iˈbɛrja/
• Hyphenation: I‧bè‧ria

Proper noun

Wikipedia ^it

Iberia f

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

Related terms

• iberico

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Proper noun

Iberia (genitive Iberiae); f, first declension

1. Iberia

Inflection

nominative	Iberia
genitive	Iberiae
dative	Iberiae
accusative	Iberiam
ablative	Iberiā
vocative	Iberia
locative	Iberiae

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /iˈβeɾja/

Etymology 1

From Latin Iberia, from Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēria), after the river Ἶβηρος (Ibēros), which itself came from a native Ibero-Celtic name for the river *Ibēr (modern Ebro).

Proper noun

Iberia f

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

Related terms

• ibérico
• iberio
• ibero, íbero
• Iberoamérica
• Península Ibérica

See also

• Hispania

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Iberia f

1. Iberia (Caucasian Iberia)