paeninsula

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”).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pae̯ˈnin.su.la/, [päe̯ˈnĩːs̠ʊɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈnin.su.la/, [peˈninsulä]

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 (see also its derived and related terms)

Descendants

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

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit
    

1. Famous Firsts in the Ancient Greek and Roman World by David Matz (2000; McFarland; →ISBN, 9780786405992), page 121
   Livy was the first Roman author to combine the words paene (almost) and insula (island) into one: paeninsula. He used the word in the course of his description of the location of New Carthage, on the Spanish coast (26.42).