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Hiberno-

/ hɪˈbɜːnəʊ; haɪˈbɜːnəʊ /

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  1. denoting Irish or Ireland

    Hiberno-English

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Among his most memorable quotes was "A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything" and "I grew up speaking Hiberno English: English woven on a Gaelic loom."

"Qua vicina pluit Vipsanis porta columnis, Et madet assiduo lubricus imbre lapis, In jugulum pueri, qui roscida templa subibat, Decidit hiberno pr�gravis unda gelu."

Ingemuit moriens, quem Hiberno sidere cretum Non Cariense tenet, non Clovinense solum.

Two months later the second letter was addressed to the same great pontiff: “Sanctissime Pater, “Accepimus a presbytero Hiberno Sanctitatis vestrae litteras per Cardinalem Comensem datas Romae 6to Augusti, quibus nobis patuit Sanctitatis Vestrae propensissimus animus, curaque vigilantissima nedum erga nos sed etiam erga salutem totius Regni Hiberniae, adeo ut ad ejus voluntatem in hoc nihil addi potest, quam pollicetur nos reipsa experturos supernâ elementia opitulante.

The proverbial sayings or rustic songs embodying the traditional peasant lore, such as the ‘Quid vesper serus vehit?’ and the ‘hiberno pulvere, verno luto, grandia farra, Camille, metes297,’ which add an antique and homely charm to the poem, may have become known to Virgil from the book of the Sasernae, who are quoted by Varro as authorities for many of the old charms used by the primitive husbandmen, such as ‘Terra pestem teneto, salus hic maneto,’ which is to be repeated ‘ter novies.’

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