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insula

See also: Insula, insulă, and ínsula

English

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Etymology

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

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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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [inˈsula]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Hyphenation: in‧su‧la

Adjective

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

  1. insular

Interlingua

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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.

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Noun

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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

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative īnsula īnsulae
Genitive īnsulae īnsulārum
Dative īnsulae īnsulīs
Accusative īnsulam īnsulās
Ablative īnsulā īnsulīs
Vocative īnsula īnsulae

Derived terms

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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):

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References

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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
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) 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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Verb

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insula

  1. inflection of insular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Noun

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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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