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
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Adjective
insula (accusative singular insulan, plural insulaj, accusative plural insulajn)
Interlingua
Noun
insula (plural insulas)
Related terms
Latin
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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