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Hibern(o)-

Irish; Irish and …

Latin Hibernus, Irish.

The adjective Hibernian refers to or concerns Ireland, and can also be a noun indicating a native of Ireland (the word is now most common in set names, such as Royal Hibernian Academy); some hyphenated terms refer to varieties of a language as spoken or written in Ireland: Hiberno-English, Hiberno-Saxon, Hiberno-Latin.

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