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insula

See also: Insula, insulă, and ínsula

English

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Insula in Ostia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɪnsjʊlə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɪnsʊlə/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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insula (plural insulas or insulae)

  2. (historical) A block of buildings in a Roman town.
  4. (neuroanatomy) A structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus.
    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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insulo (“island”) +‎ -a

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Adjective

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

  1. insular

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Noun

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insula (plural insulas)

  1. island
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Latin

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īnsula in marī Adriāticō (an island in the Adriatic Sea)

Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *enselā, of uncertain origin. 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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    īnsula f (genitive īnsulae); first declension

    1. island
    2. insula, a residential or apartment block (usually for the lower class), tenement, apartment building

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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):

    Borrowings:

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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’s 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[2], 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

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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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