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insular

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin insularis (“of or belonging to an island”), from insula (“an island”), perhaps, from in (“in”) + salum (“the main sea”).

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insular (comparative more insular, superlative most insular)

  3. Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little regard for others opinions or prejudices; provincial.
    Near-synonym: peninsular
    • 1903 July, Jack London, “Into the Primitive”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages 18–19:
      During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.
    • 1991 February 4, Owen Shows, “Start Making Sense”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 16:
      Making Sense of the Sixties used the typical Americanocentric documentary style that avoided a world or historical context for events […] Other countries were mentioned only insofar as they disturbed the insular course of events in the United States.
  4. Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
  5. (anatomy) Relating to the insula in the brain.
  6. (biochemistry) Relating to insulin.
  7. (linguistics, anthropology) (often with a capital letter) Relating to the varieties of a language or languages spoken chiefly on islands. Insular Latin, Latin as it was spoken in Britain and Ireland. Insular Celtic, the Celtic languages of Britain, Ireland and also Brittany, as opposed to those spoken in mainland Europe other than Brittany. Insular Scandinavian, relating to the Icelandic and Faroese languages as opposed to the ones spoken in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

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Noun

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insular (plural insulars)

  1. An islander.
    • 1744, George Berkeley, Siris, a chain of philosophical reflections and inquiries, concerning the virtues of tar-water:
      these insulars in general live in a gross saline air , and their vessels being less elastic are consequently less able to subdue and cast off what their bodies as sponges draw in

Further reading

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  • “insular”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin īnsulāris.

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insular m or f (masculine and feminine plural insulars)

  1. insular
    Synonym: illenc
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Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin īnsulāris.

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insular m or f (plural insulares)

  1. insular

Etymology 2

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From ínsula +‎ -ar. Piecewise doublet of ilhar and isolar.

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Verb

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insular (first-person singular present insulo, first-person singular preterite insulei, past participle insulado)

  1. to isolate
  2. (physics) to insulate
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    Conjugation of insular (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Singular Plural
First-person
(eu) 		Second-person
(tu) 		Third-person
(ele / ela / você) 		First-person
(nós) 		Second-person
(vós) 		Third-person
(eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal insular
Personal insular insulares insular insularmos insulardes insularem
Gerund
insulando
Past participle
Masculine insulado insulados
Feminine insulada insuladas
Indicative
Present insulo insulas insula insulamos insulais insulam
Imperfect insulava insulavas insulava insulávamos insuláveis insulavam
Preterite insulei insulaste insulou insulamos1, insulámos2 insulastes insularam
Pluperfect insulara insularas insulara insuláramos insuláreis insularam
Future insularei insularás insulará insularemos insulareis insularão
Conditional insularia insularias insularia insularíamos insularíeis insulariam
Subjunctive
Present insule insules insule insulemos insuleis insulem
Imperfect insulasse insulasses insulasse insulássemos insulásseis insulassem
Future insular insulares insular insularmos insulardes insularem
Imperative
Affirmative insula insule insulemos insulai insulem
Negative (não) não insules não insule não insulemos não insuleis não insulem

1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French insulaire, from Latin insularis. By surface analysis, insulă +‎ -ar.

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insular m or n (feminine singular insulară, masculine plural insulari, feminine and neuter plural insulare)

  1. insular

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Declension of insular
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite insular insulară insulari insulare
definite insularul insulara insularii insularele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite insular insulare insulari insulare
definite insularului insularei insularilor insularelor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin īnsulāris.

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  • IPA(key): /insuˈlaɾ/ [ĩn.suˈlaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: in‧su‧lar

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insular m or f (masculine and feminine plural insulares)

  1. of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands

Noun

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insular m or f by sense (plural insulares)

  1. islander
  2. (Philippines, obsolete, historical) Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent[1][2]
    Synonyms: filipino, filipina, castellano, español
    Coordinate terms: peninsular, criollo, americano
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  1. ^ Pepito, Dr. Rodello ((Can we date this quote?)) Insulares: Spanish born in Insular areas‎[1]
  2. ^ Perdon, Renato (2013 December 31) The origin of Filipino‎[2], archived from the original on 21 October 2021

Further reading

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  • “insular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
  • Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “insular”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
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