Hiberno-Saxon

[hahy-bur-noh-sak-suhn]

Hi·ber·no-Sax·on

[hahy-bur-noh-sak-suhn]
adjective
1.
having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
2.
pertaining to or designating the style of art, especially of manuscript illumination, developed principally during the 7th and 8th centuries a.d. in the monastic scriptoria founded by Irish missionaries, characterized chiefly by the use of zoomorphic forms elaborated in interlaced patterns and often set within a symmetrically balanced framework of geometric shapes; Anglo-Irish.


Origin:
1935–40; Hiberno- combining form of Hibernian
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To Hiberno-Saxon

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Hiberno-saxon has a plethora of syllables.
So is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Does it mean:
given to using long words.
(used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.)
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature