Iberian

comparative more Iberian · superlative most Iberian

1. Native to Iberia.
2. Of or pertaining to Iberia.

   The store clerk scribbles himself a to-do note and lifts the stylus back to the start of “¿Por qué lloras blanca niña?,” lowers the needle onto shimmering black vinyl, and dreams of Jewish shepherd boys plucking their lyres on starlit Iberian hillsides.

   2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 119

plural Iberians

1. countableA native of modern-day Iberia (the European peninsula): a person native to Spain, Portugal, Andorra, or Gibraltar,.
2. countablehistoricalin pluraluncountableAn ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, at least from the 6th century BCE.
3. countableA Georgian (person from the country in Eurasia).

1. An extinct language isolate that was spoken in the Iberian peninsula.

   Whereas the presence of Etruscan [in southern France] was likely the result of Etruscan traders settling in the area relatively recently, Iberian appears to have been the prevalent language, at least in the southwesternmost parts of what is now the French Mediterranean coast.

   2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 518