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See also: Insula, insulă, and ínsula

English

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Insula in Ostia

Etymology

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From Latin īnsula (“island”). Doublet of isle.

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Noun

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insula (plural insulas or insulae)

  1. (poetic) Island.
    • Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, page 57:
      "You must know, friend Sancho Panza, that it was a very common custom of knights errant of old to make their squires governors of the ínsulas or kingdoms they won, and I have resolved so amiable a usage shall not go unfulfilled on my account..."
  3. (historical) A block of buildings in a Roman town.
  5. (neuroanatomy) A structure of the human brain located within the sylvian fissure.
    Synonyms: insular cortex, island of Reil
    • 2007 February 6, Sandra Blakeslee, “A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      All mammals have insulas that read their body condition, Dr. Craig said.
    • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 608:
      The insula registers our physical gut feelings, including the sensation of a distended stomach and other inner states like nausea, warmth, a full bladder, and a pounding heart.

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Esperanto insulo
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Italic *-ā
Latin -ader.
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Latin -a
Italian -ader.
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Latin -a
Old Spanish -a
Spanish -ader.
Esperanto -a
Esperanto insula

    From insulo (“island”) + -a.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /inˈsula/
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    • Rhymes: -ula
    • Syllabification: in‧su‧la

    Adjective

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    insula (accusative singular insulan, plural insulaj, accusative plural insulajn)

    1. insular

    Interlingua

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    Noun

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    insula (plural insulas)

    1. island
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    Latin

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    Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
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    īnsula in marī Adriāticō (an island in the Adriatic Sea)

    Etymology

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      The relation to similar forms such as Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”) and Proto-Celtic *enistī (“island”) (whence Breton enez, Irish inis and Welsh ynys) is unclear.

      Pokorny (1959) tentatively connects it to salum (“the sea”): he posits ellipsis from terra in salō (“land in the sea”) to in (“in”) + salō, invoking the similar Ancient Greek word ἔναλος (énalos, “maritime”). De Vaan considers this derivation phonetically solid, though semantically vague and unlikely. For an alternative he offers a connection of *-sul- to Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“place, ground”) as in solum; compare Lithuanian salà (“island”). Perhaps instead of foreign or substrate origin.[1]

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      Noun

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      īnsula f (genitive īnsulae); first declension

      1. island
        • 1772, Finnur Jónsson, chapter 1, in Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ [The Ecclesiastical History of Iceland]‎[2], volume 1, Copenhagen: Orphanotrophius Regii, section 1, page 1:
          Islandia eſt inſula valde montoſa pariter ac ſinuoſa, in mari Caledonio ſita ſub gradu latitud: 64. 55.
          [Īslandia est īnsula montōsa pariter ac sinuōsa, in marī Calēdoniō sita sub gradū *latitud: 64. 55.]
          Iceland is a both mountainous and likewise rugged island, situated in the Caledonian Sea at a latitude of 64 degrees 55 minutes.
          ("latitud" is an invention by the author; lātitūdo would be the more normal term)
      2. insula, a residential or apartment block (usually for the lower class), tenement, apartment building

      Declension

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      First-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative īnsula īnsulae
      genitive īnsulae īnsulārum
      dative īnsulae īnsulīs
      accusative īnsulam īnsulās
      ablative īnsulā īnsulīs
      vocative īnsula īnsulae

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      Descendants

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      • Old Galician-Portuguese: inssoa, insoa, insua
        • Galician: insua
        • Portuguese: ínsua
      • Rhaeto-Romance:

      Reflexes of an assumed Vulgar Latin variant *īsula (with regular loss of n before s):

      Reflexion of *īsla which was early realised as *īscla (with a prosthetic c):

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      References

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      1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “īnsula”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306

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      • “insula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • “insula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • "insula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
      • “insula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
      • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
        • to double an island, cape: superare insulam, promunturium
      • “insula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • “insula”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
      • “insula”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
      • “insula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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      Verb

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      insula

      1. inflection of insular:
        1. third-person singular present indicative
        2. second-person singular imperative

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      insula f

      1. definite nominative singular of insulă: the island
      2. definite accusative singular of insulă: the island

      Tagalog

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      Etymology

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      Back-formation from insulasyon, from English insulation. Also, a pseudo-Hispanism thinking a verb Spanish insular (“insular; relating to islands”) exists to mean “to insulate”. However, the proper Spanish term for “to insulate” is Spanish aislar. See aysla. Alternatively, possibly borrowed from Spanish ínsula (“island”), from Latin īnsula, but the word is obsolete in Spanish. Possible doublet of isla.

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      insulá (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ)

      1. act of insulation
        Synonyms: bukod, hiwalay, aysla

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