Latin

Proper noun

Īnsula f ‎(genitive Īnsulae); first declension

1. A district in Rome encircled by the Tiber River.

Declension

First declension, with locative.

Related terms

References

• Insula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Insula”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

English

Noun

insula ‎(plural insulas or insulae)

1. (historical) A block of buildings in a Roman town.
2. (neuroanatomy) The insular cortex, a structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus.
   • 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.

Translations

Esperanto

Adjective

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

1. insular

Latin

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

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. It has been connected to Ancient Greek νῆσος ‎(nêsos, “island”), Breton enez, Old Irish inis and Old Welsh inis.

Pokorny (1959) tentatively connects it to salum ‎(“the sea”): he posits ellipsis from terra in salo ‎(“land in the sea”) to in ‎(“in”) + salo (ablative of salum), invoking the similar Ancient Greek word ἔναλος ‎(énalos, “maritime”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiːn.su.la/

Noun

īnsula f ‎(genitive īnsulae); first declension

1. island
2. residential or apartment block (usually for the lower class)

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “insula”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈinsula]

Noun

insula f

1. definite singular nominative form of insulă. the island
2. definite singular accusative form of insulă. the island