Iberia en · PROPN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /aɪˈbɪɹ.i.ə/ (General-American)
- /aɪˈbɪə̯ɹ.i.ə/ (General-American)
- /aɪˈbɪə̯.ɹi.ə/ (UK)
Etymology
From Latin Iberia, from Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēría), after Ἴβηρος (Íbēros, “the river Ebro”). See Iberia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Meanings
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A peninsula and region of Europe south of the Pyrenees, consisting of Andorra, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar.
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.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- A city and town in Missouri.
- A census-designated place in Ohio.
Deriveds
Iberia Parish · New Iberia · Christian Iberia
Relateds
Iberian · Iberian Peninsula · iberis
Translations (48)
hu Ibéria (region south of the Pyrenees) · hy Իբերիա (region south of the Pyrenees) · ga an Ibéir (region south of the Pyrenees) · gl Iberia (region south of the Pyrenees) · nn Iberia (region south of the Pyrenees) · fr Ibérie (region south of the Pyrenees) · ru Ибе́рия (region south of the Pyrenees) · sq Iberia (region south of the Pyrenees) · et Ibeeria (region south of the Pyrenees) · ta ஐபீரியா (region south of the Pyrenees) · nl Iberisch Schiereiland (region south of the Pyrenees) · la Hibēria (region south of the Pyrenees) · ko 이베리아 (region south of the Pyrenees) · el Ιβηρία (region south of the Pyrenees) · fi Iberia (region south of the Pyrenees) · pt Ibéria (region south of the Pyrenees) · sl Iberija (region south of the Pyrenees) · fi Iberian niemimaa (region south of the Pyrenees) · mr आय्बेरिया (region south of the Pyrenees) · sh Iberija (region south of the Pyrenees) · sv Pyreneiska halvön (region south of the Pyrenees) · ca Ibèria (region south of the Pyrenees) · it Iberia (region south of the Pyrenees) · fa ایبریا (region south of the Pyrenees) · grc Ἰβηρία (region south of the Pyrenees) · uk Ібе́рія (region south of the Pyrenees) · es Iberia (region south of the Pyrenees) · ro Iberia (region south of the Pyrenees) · da Iberiske Halvø (region south of the Pyrenees) · lv Ibērija (region south of the Pyrenees) · pl Półwysep Iberyjski (region south of the Pyrenees) · sk Ibéria (region south of the Pyrenees) · lt Iberija (region south of the Pyrenees) · tr İberya (region south of the Pyrenees) · da Iberien (region south of the Pyrenees) · de Iberien (region south of the Pyrenees) · de die Iberische Halbinsel (region south of the Pyrenees) · bg Иберия (region south of the Pyrenees) · sh Иберија (region south of the Pyrenees) · af Iberië (region south of the Pyrenees) · ja イベリア (region south of the Pyrenees) · sv Iberien (region south of the Pyrenees) · nl Iberië (region south of the Pyrenees) · ka იბერია (region south of the Pyrenees) · nb Iberia (region south of the Pyrenees) · cs Ibérie (region south of the Pyrenees) · sv Iberiska halvön (region south of the Pyrenees) · pl Iberia (region south of the Pyrenees)