insula
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin insula (“island”). Doublet of isle.
Pronunciation
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Noun
insula (plural insulas or insulae)
- (historical) A block of buildings in a Roman town.
- (neuroanatomy) The insular cortex, a structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus.
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- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 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.
Derived terms
Translations
a block of buildings in a Roman town
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a structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus
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Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
insula (accusative singular insulan, plural insulaj, accusative plural insulajn)
Interlingua
Noun
insula (plural insulas)
Related terms
Latin
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Adriatic_Sea_islands.jpg/220px-Adriatic_Sea_islands.jpg)
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. The resemblance to Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”) and Proto-Celtic *enistī (“island”) (whence Breton enez, Irish inis and Welsh ynys) appears to be accidental.
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”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈin.su.la/, [ˈĩːs̠ʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.su.la/, [ˈinsulä]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
īnsula f (genitive īnsulae); first declension
- island
- residential or apartment block (usually for the lower class), tenement, apartment building
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | īnsula | īnsulae |
Genitive | īnsulae | īnsulārum |
Dative | īnsulae | īnsulīs |
Accusative | īnsulam | īnsulās |
Ablative | īnsulā | īnsulīs |
Vocative | īnsula | īnsulae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old Galician-Portuguese: inssoa, insoa, insua
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Romansch: insla
- → English: insula
- → Low German: Insel
- → Middle High German: insel
- → Portuguese: ínsula
- → Romanian: insulă
- → Spanish: ínsula
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *isula
References
- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to double an island, cape: superare insulam, promunturium
- 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
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
insula f
- definite nominative singular of insulă: the island
- definite accusative singular of insulă: the island
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