Iuverna

• Iuberna

Variant of the name Hī̆bernia, Iverna (Greek Ἰ̄έρνη (Īérnē), Ἰ̄ουερνία (Īouernía)) etc.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [i.uːˈwɛr.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.uˈvɛr.na]
• In Juvenal, "litora Iuuer" scans as a dactyl + spondee, which requires a pronunciation starting with Ĭūver- or Jūver-. Neither pronunciation would preserve the prosody of the Old Irish name, which started with *Īwer-. In accordance with the phonotactics of Ancient Greek (which did not possess consonantal j), word-initial I- + vowel is typically pronounced with hiatus in Latin terms borrowed from Greek, such as Īō̆nius.
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [juːˈwɛr.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [juˈvɛr.na]

Iūverna f sg (genitive Iūvernae); first declension

1. (historical, rare) synonym of Hibernia: Ireland (an island and country in Western Europe)
   • c. 45 CE, Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia 3.53.1:

     Super Britanniam Iuverna est paene par spatio

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   • Juvenal, Saturae 2.160:

     litora Iuvernae promovimus et modo captas

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   • Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Flavi Vopisci Syracusii Tacitus 16.5.1:

     litora Iuvernam insulam proconsulem mittat

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   • c. 1480 – 1524, Faustino Perisauli, De Triumpho Stultitiae 2.428, (jū or ĭū):

     Incŏlă Iuvernae postrēmăquĕ littŏră cernat

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   • c. 1480 – 1524, Faustino Perisauli, De Triumpho Stultitiae 2.775, (jū or ĭŭ):

     Rursŭs ĕt occĭdŭōs Iuvernae littŏră fīnēs

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First-declension noun, singular only.