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单词 iberian
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Iberianadj.n.

Brit. /ʌɪˈbɪərɪən/, U.S. /aɪˈbɪriən/
Etymology: < Latin Ibēria the country of the Ibēri or Ibēres , < Greek Ἴβηρες the Spaniards, also an Asiatic people near the Caucasus in modern Georgia. See -an suffix, -ian suffix.
A. adj.
1. (a) Of or pertaining to ancient Iberia in Europe (comprising Spain and Portugal, the ‘Iberian peninsula’), or its inhabitants. (b) Basque. (c) Of Spain and Portugal unitedly.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > native or inhabitant of Iberia > [adjective]
Celtiberian1614
Iberiana1618
a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 692 By This, th' Iberian Argonauts May be suppos'd..T' have kill'd more Men then by their Martyrdom, Or Massacre.
1637 J. Milton Comus 3 Roaving the Celtick, and Iberian fields.
1828–32 Hare & Thirlwall tr. Niebuhr Hist. Rome (1851) I. 171 An Iberian colony at Nora.
1881 Times 21 Apr. 9/4 Whether this Iberian scheme has any chance of realization.
1898 J. Heron Celtic Church 7 There are reasons for believing that the Firbolgs contained an Iberian element.
2. Of or pertaining to ancient Iberia in Asia, nearly corresponding to modern Georgia.
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1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 317 The Hyrcanian cliffs Of Caucasus, and dark Iberian dales. View more context for this quotation
3. Pertaining to the Iberians of Britain (cf. B. 3).
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the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [adjective] > ancient Britons > other ancient Britons
Icenian1624
Icenic1809
Iberian1880
1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 605/2 Extreme exponents of the theory do not hesitate to speak of the Iberian ancestors of the people of England.
1907 T. R. Holmes Anc. Brit. 65 The race to which they [sc. neolithic inhabitants of Britain] belonged is often called the Iberian, though there is no reason to believe that its British representatives belonged to the Iberian rather than to some other branch of the Mediterranean stock.
B. n.
1.
a. An inhabitant of ancient Iberia in Europe; hence: (a) a Basque; (b) a Spanish person.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > native or inhabitant of Iberia > [noun]
Celtiberi1544
Celtiberian1544
Iberian1623
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Iberians, Spaniards.
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour i. i. sig. C When the Iberian quak'd, her [sc. England's] worthies nam'd.
1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (1848) xxiv. 256 The language of the ancient Iberians has survived..in the vernacular speech of the Biscayans in Spain and the Basques of France.
b. The language of ancient Iberia, supposed to be represented by the modern Basque.
2. An inhabitant of ancient Iberia in Asia.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun]
MedeeOE
PartheOE
PuniceOE
NineviteOE
Trojanc1330
sodomitea1382
Phoeniciana1387
Macedonianc1400
Parthianc1400
Macedonc1440
Phrygian?1473
Mycenaeanc1487
Tyrian1513
Sidonian?1520
Galatian1526
Canaanite1530
Cananaean1534
Milesian1550
Sogdian1553
Syrophœnician1560
Molossian1563
Hyrcanian1567
Palmyrene1567
Pergamenian1579
Smyrnian1579
Mysian1581
Carthaginian1592
Punican1595
Lycian1598
Smyrnaean1598
Phocaean1600
Gallo-greeks1601
Iberian1601
Minaean1601
Susian1601
Cappadocian1607
Carian1607
Paphlagonian1607
Hamathite1611
Pergamene1612
Byzantiana1620
Gallo-graecians1619
Chalcidian1654
Philadelphiana1680
Xanthian1685
Palmyrenian1697
Isaurian1776
Dardan1813
Byzantine1836
Bœotian1839
Ilian1847
Susianian1874
Libyo-Phœnician1876
Khaldian1882
Mitannian1907
Iconian1911
Petraean1923
Lycaonian1926
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 119 You enter..into the Iberians region, who are separated from the Albanois..by the riuer Alazon, which runneth downe from the Caucasian hills.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 43 The Iberians, saith Montanus, dwelt neare to Meotis: certaine Colonies of them inhabited Spaine, and called it Hiberia.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. ii. 54 The Georgians are those people whom Cosmographers cal Iberians.
3. A neolithic inhabitant of Britain, considered as one of a branch of the continental Iberians.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [noun] > ancient Britons > other ancient Britons
Belges?1556
Belgae1573
Icenian1598
Iberian1880
1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. ix. 322 The Silures, identified by Tacitus with the Iberians, were left only in those fastnesses which were subsequently a refuge for the Welsh against the English invaders.
1900 W. A. Dutt Norfolk 7 The Iceni..were probably mentally as well as physically superior to the Iberians.
1920 H. F. Henderson Relig. in Scotl. i. 11 The Iberians absorbed the Celts without serious dilution of their original characteristics.
1957 G. Ashe King Arthur's Avalon i. 15 Throughout a long stretch of years the inhabitants of Britain were dark little Iberians.

Derivatives

Iˈberianism n. (see quot. 1880).
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1880 Literary World 8 Oct. 234/2 Iberianism, the project of bringing Spain and Portugal together under a single crown.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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