English

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.

Related terms

• Iberian
• iberis

Translations

Etymology 2

Iberia

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 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

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

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.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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)

Related terms

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

See also

• Hispania

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Iberia f

1. Iberia (Caucasian Iberia)