paeninsula

See also: pæninsula

Latin

Alternative forms

• pænīnsula, pēnīnsula

Etymology

Coined by Livy (59 B.C.E. – 17 C.E.): paene (“nearly”, “almost”) + īnsula (“island”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pae̯ˈnin.su.la/, [pae̯ˈnĩː.s̠ʊ.lˠa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈnin.su.la/, [pɛˈnin.su.la]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /peˈnin.su.la/, [peˈnen.so.la]

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Noun

paenīnsula f (genitive paenīnsulae); first declension

1. peninsula

   Italia et Graecia paeninsulae sunt. ― Italy and Greece are peninsulas.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	paenīnsula	paenīnsulae
Genitive	paenīnsulae	paenīnsulārum
Dative	paenīnsulae	paenīnsulīs
Accusative	paenīnsulam	paenīnsulās
Ablative	paenīnsulā	paenīnsulīs
Vocative	paenīnsula	paenīnsulae

Related terms

• īnsula
• Īnsula
• īnsulānus
• īnsulāris
• īnsulārius
• īnsulēnsis
• īnsulōsus

 

Descendants

• Catalan: península
• English: peninsula
• French: péninsule
• Galician: península
• Italian: penisola
• Portuguese: península
• Romanian: peninsulă
• Spanish: península, Peñiscola

References

• paeninsula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paeninsula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• paeninsula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit