Hibernia

Learned borrowing from Latin Hibernia, which see.

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈbɜː(ɹ)nɪə/, /hɪˈbɜː(ɹ)nɪə/

Hibernia

1. (poetic) Ireland (an island and country in Western Europe).

   Synonym: Erin

2. A female personification of Ireland.

   Synonym: Erin

• Hibernian

• Īvernia
• Ī̆uverna
• Ibernia (Medieval Latin)

Earlier Īvernia, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰ̄έρνη (Īérnē), Ἰ̄ουερνία (Īouernía), Ἱ̄βερνία (Hībernía), borrowed from Primitive Irish *Īweriū and its genitive *Īweriyonah (whence probably Irish Éire), from Proto-Celtic *Φīweriyū.

Initial H due to the influence of hībernus (“wintry”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hiːˈber.ni.a/, [hiːˈbɛrniä] or IPA^(key): /hiˈber.ni.a/, [hɪˈbɛrniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈber.ni.a/, [iˈbɛrniä]

Hī̆bernia f sg (genitive Hī̆berniae); first declension

1. (historical) Ireland (an island and country in Western Europe)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Hibernia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Hibernia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Hibernia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Hibernia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly