Ivernia

Borrowed from Latin Ivernia.

Ivernia

1. (historical, archaic) Synonym of Hibernia: Ireland (an island in 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) IPA^(key): /iːˈu̯er.ni.a/, [iːˈu̯ɛrniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈver.ni.a/, [iˈvɛrniä]

Īvernia f sg (genitive Īverniae); first declension

1. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of Hibernia: Ireland (an island in 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