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insular

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin īnsulāris (“of or belonging to an island”), from īnsula (“an island”), of uncertain origin.[1]

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insular (comparative more insular, superlative most insular)

  3. Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little regard for others opinions or prejudices; provincial.
    Near-synonym: peninsular
    • 1903 July, Jack London, “Into the Primitive”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages 18–19:
      During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.
    • 1991 February 4, Owen Shows, “Start Making Sense”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 16:
      Making Sense of the Sixties used the typical Americanocentric documentary style that avoided a world or historical context for events […] Other countries were mentioned only insofar as they disturbed the insular course of events in the United States.
  4. Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
  5. (anatomy) Relating to the insula in the brain.
  6. (biochemistry) Relating to insulin.
  7. (linguistics, anthropology) (often with a capital letter) Relating to the varieties of a language or languages spoken chiefly on islands. Insular Latin, Latin as it was spoken in Britain and Ireland. Insular Celtic, the Celtic languages of Britain, Ireland and also Brittany, as opposed to those spoken in mainland Europe other than Brittany. Insular Scandinavian, relating to the Icelandic and Faroese languages as opposed to the ones spoken in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

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Noun

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insular (plural insulars)

  1. An islander.
    • 1744, George Berkeley, Siris, a chain of philosophical reflections and inquiries, concerning the virtues of tar-water:
      these insulars in general live in a gross saline air , and their vessels being less elastic are consequently less able to subdue and cast off what their bodies as sponges draw in

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  1. ^ “insular, adj and n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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  • “insular”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin īnsulāris.

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    insular m or f (masculine and feminine plural insulars)

    1. insular
      Synonym: illenc
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    Portuguese

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    Etymology 1

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    Etymology tree
    Latin īnsula
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
    Proto-Indo-European *-is
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
    Proto-Italic *-ālis
    Latin -ālis
    Latin -āris
    Latin īnsulārislbor.
    Portuguese insular

      Learned borrowing from Latin īnsulāris.

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      insular m or f (plural insulares)

      1. insular

      Etymology 2

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      From ínsula +‎ -ar. Piecewise doublet of ilhar and isolar.

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      insular (first-person singular present insulo, first-person singular preterite insulei, past participle insulado)

      1. to isolate
      2. (physics) to insulate
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          Conjugation of insular (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
      Singular Plural
      First-person
      (eu)       		Second-person
      (tu)       		Third-person
      (ele / ela / você)       		First-person
      (nós)       		Second-person
      (vós)       		Third-person
      (eles / elas / vocês)
      Infinitive
      Impersonal insular
      Personal insular insulares insular insularmos insulardes insularem
      Gerund
      insulando
      Past participle
      Masculine insulado insulados
      Feminine insulada insuladas
      Indicative
      Present insulo insulas insula insulamos insulais insulam
      Imperfect insulava insulavas insulava insulávamos insuláveis insulavam
      Preterite insulei insulaste insulou insulamos1, insulámos2 insulastes insularam
      Pluperfect insulara insularas insulara insuláramos insuláreis insularam
      Future insularei insularás insulará insularemos insulareis insularão
      Conditional insularia insularias insularia insularíamos insularíeis insulariam
      Subjunctive
      Present insule insules insule insulemos insuleis insulem
      Imperfect insulasse insulasses insulasse insulássemos insulásseis insulassem
      Future insular insulares insular insularmos insulardes insularem
      Imperative
      Affirmative insula insule insulemos insulai insulem
      Negative (não) não insules não insule não insulemos não insuleis não insulem

      1Brazilian Portuguese.
      2European Portuguese.

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      Alternative forms

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from French insulaire, from Latin īnsulāris. By surface analysis, insulă +‎ -ar.

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      • IPA(key): /in.suˈlar/
      • Rhymes: -ar
      • Hyphenation: in‧su‧lar

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      insular m or n (feminine singular insulară, masculine plural insulari, feminine/neuter plural insulare)

      1. insular

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      Declension of insular
      singular plural
      masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
      nominative-
      accusative       		indefinite insular insulară insulari insulare
      definite insularul insulara insularii insularele
      genitive-
      dative       		indefinite insular insulare insulari insulare
      definite insularului insularei insularilor insularelor

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      Spanish

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      Etymology

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      Etymology tree
      Latin īnsula
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
      Proto-Indo-European *-is
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
      Proto-Italic *-ālis
      Latin -ālis
      Latin -āris
      Latin īnsulārisbor.
      Spanish insular

        Borrowed from Latin īnsulāris. By surface analysis, ínsula +‎ -ar.

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        • IPA(key): /insuˈlaɾ/ [ĩn.suˈlaɾ]
        • Rhymes: -aɾ
        • Syllabification: in‧su‧lar

        Adjective

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        insular m or f (masculine and feminine plural insulares)

        1. insular (of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands)

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        Noun

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        insular m or f by sense (plural insulares)

        1. islander
        2. (Philippines, obsolete, historical) Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent[1][2]
          Synonyms: filipino, filipina, castellano, español
          Coordinate terms: peninsular, criollo, americano
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        1. ^ Pepito, Dr. Rodello ((Can we date this quote?)), Insulares: Spanish born in Insular areas‎[1]
        2. ^ Perdon, Renato (31 December 2013), The origin of Filipino‎[2], archived from the original on 21 October 2021

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