{"id":3905,"count":1,"description":"Hibernia is the Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland. The name Hibernia was taken from Greek geographical accounts. During his exploration of northwest Europe (c. 320 BC), Pytheas of Massilia called the island Ierne (written \u1f38\u03ad\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7). In his book Geographia (c. 150 AD), Claudius Ptolemaeus (\"Ptolemy\") called the island Iouernia (written \u1f38\u03bf\u03c5\u03b5\u03c1\u03bd\u03af\u03b1). It is likely that the Romans saw a connection between these historical names and the Latin word hibernus meaning wintry. In any case, the Roman historian Tacitus, in his book Agricola (c. 98 AD), uses the name Hibernia. It could also be that Ireland itself never stops raining, and is therefore \"wintry\", with the ia from Iouernia to end the hibernus instead of the us.\nIouernia was a Greek alteration of the Q-Celtic name *\u012aweri\u016b from which eventually arose the Irish names \u00c9riu and \u00c9ire. The original meaning of the name is thought to be \"abundant land\".\nThe island of Ireland was never incorporated into the Roman Empire. The fact that...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/hibernia\/","name":"Hibernia","slug":"hibernia","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}