insula

See also: Insula, insulă, and ínsula

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsjuːlə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsʊlə/

Noun

insula (plural insulas or insulae)

(historical) A block of buildings in a Roman town.
(neuroanatomy) A structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus.
Synonyms: insular cortex, island of Reil
- 2007, February 6, “Sandra Blakeslee”, in New York Times‎:
  All mammals have insulas that read their body condition, Dr. Craig said.
- 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

perinsular

Translations

a block of buildings in a Roman town

Finnish: insula (fi), roomalainen vuokrakasarmi
French: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: ínsula (pt) f

a structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus

Finnish: aivosaari, insula (fi)
French: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: ínsula (pt) f

Anagrams

inulas, uinals

Esperanto

Etymology

insulo (“island”) +‎ -a

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

insular

Interlingua

Noun

insula (plural insulas)

island

Related terms

insular

Latin

īnsula in marī Adriāticō (an island in the Adriatic Sea)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enselā, 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 purely 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) IPA^(key): /ˈin.su.la/, [ˈĩːs̠ʊɫ̪ä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.su.la/, [ˈinsulä]

Noun

īnsula f (genitive īnsulae); first declension

island
insula, a residential or apartment block (usually for the lower class), tenement, apartment building

Declension

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

Īnsula
īnsulānus
īnsulāris
īnsulārius
īnsulēnsis
īnsulō
īnsulōsus
paenīnsula

Descendants

Old Portuguese: inssoa, insoa, insua
- Galician: insua
- Portuguese: ínsua
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Romansch: insla
→ English: insula
→ Low German: Insel
→ Middle High German: insel
- Alemannic German: Insle
- Bavarian: Insl
- German: Insel, Insul
- Hunsrik: Insel
- Luxembourgish: Insel
- Yiddish: אינדזל‎ (indzl), אינזל‎ (inzl)
→ Portuguese: ínsula
→ Romanian: insulă
→ Spanish: ínsula
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *isula
- Corsican: isula
- Emilian: îsla
- Italian: isola
- Lombard: isla
- Navarro-Aragonese:
  - Aragonese: isla
- Old French: isle
  - Middle French: isle
    - French: île, ile; isle
      - Antillean Creole: zil
      - Haitian Creole: zil, zile
      - Mauritian Creole: zil
  - Norman: île
  - Walloon: iye
  - → Middle English: yle, ile
    - English: isle
- Neapolitan: isule
- Old Occitan: illa, ilha, isla
  - Occitan: iscla, illa
  - Old Catalan: illa
    - Catalan: illa
    - → Old Portuguese: illa, ilha
      - Galician: illa
      - Portuguese: ilha
        Kabuverdianu: ilha
      - → Leonese: illa
      - → Mirandese: ilha
- Old Spanish: isla
  - Ladino: ísla, ízla
  - Spanish: isla, ínsula
    - Chamicuro: yishla
    - Papiamentu: isla
    - → Basque: irla
    - → Ilocano: isla
    - → Inabaknon: isla
    - → Tagalog: ísla
  - → Asturian: islla, isla
  - → Extremaduran: isla
  - → Old Portuguese: ysla, yslla, yslha
- Piedmontese: isla
- Rhaeto-Romance:
  - Friulian: isule, ìsule
- Sardinian: isula
- Sicilian: ìsula
- Venetian: ixoła, ixola
- → Albanian: ishull

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, 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

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈinsula]

Noun

insula f

definite nominative singular of insulă: the island
definite accusative singular of insulă: the island