Ivernia

Learned borrowing from Latin Īvernia.

Ivernia

1. (historical, archaic) Synonym of Hibernia: Ireland (an island of Western Europe).

• Iverni
• Ivernic

• Iverian

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰ̄ουερνία (Īouernía), from Primitive Irish [script needed] (*īweriū) (compare Old Irish Ériu), from Proto-Celtic *Φīweryū.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [iːˈwɛr.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈvɛr.ni.a]

Īvernia f sg (genitive Īverniae); first declension

1. (historical, obsolete) synonym of Hibernia: Ireland (an island of Western Europe)
   • 1511, Bernardus Sylvanus ed., Jacobus Angelus's translation of Ptolemy as Liber Geographica, Bk VIII:

     In prima Tabula[:] Iuernia insula & Albion insula Brictannicae

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Ivernia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly