insularius

Latin

Etymology

From īnsula (“island”), also used figuratively to refer to a house for the poor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.suˈlaː.ri.us/, [ĩːs̠ʊˈɫ̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.suˈla.ri.us/, [insuˈläːrius]

Noun

īnsulārius m (genitive īnsulāriī or īnsulārī); second declension

1. A tenant in an īnsula

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnsulārius	īnsulāriī
Genitive	īnsulāriī īnsulārī1	īnsulāriōrum
Dative	īnsulāriō	īnsulāriīs
Accusative	īnsulārium	īnsulāriōs
Ablative	īnsulāriō	īnsulāriīs
Vocative	īnsulārie	īnsulāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• īnsula
• Īnsula
• īnsulānus
• īnsulāris

• īnsulensis
• īnsulōsus
• paenīnsula

References

• “insularius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• insularius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.