FromLatininsula(“island”).Doublet ofisle.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈɪnsjʊlə/
• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈɪnsʊlə/

insula (pluralinsulasorinsulae)

2. (historical) A block ofbuildings in a Roman town.
4. (neuroanatomy) A structure of the humanbrain located within thelateral sulcus.

   Synonyms:insular cortex,island of Reil

   • 2007 February 6, Sandra Blakeslee, “A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects”, inNew York Times‎^[1]:

     All mammals haveinsulas that read their body condition, Dr. Craig said.

   • 2011,Steven Pinker,The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published2012, page608:

     Theinsula 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.

• perinsular

• inulas,uinals

insulo(“island”) +‎-a

• IPA^(key):/inˈsula/

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• Rhymes:-ula
• Hyphenation: in‧su‧la

insula (accusative singularinsulan,pluralinsulaj,accusative pluralinsulajn)

1. insular

insula (pluralinsulas)

1. island

• insular

FromProto-Italic*enselā, of uncertain origin. The relation to similar forms such asAncient Greekνῆσος(nêsos,“island”) andProto-Celtic*enistī(“island”) (whenceBretonenez,Irishinis andWelshynys) is unclear.

Pokorny (1959) tentatively connects it tosalum(“the sea”): he positsellipsis fromterra in salō(“land in the sea”) toin(“in”) +salō, invoking the similar Ancient Greek wordἔναλος(énalos,“maritime”). De Vaan considers this derivation phonetically solid, though semantically vague and unlikely. For an alternative he offers a connection of*-sul- toProto-Indo-European*solh₂-(“place, ground”) as insolum; compareLithuaniansalà(“island”). Perhaps instead of foreign orsubstrate origin.^[1]

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈin.su.la/,[ˈĩːs̠ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈin.su.la/,[ˈinsulä]

īnsula f (genitiveīnsulae);first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• Old Galician-Portuguese:inssoa,insoa,insua
  • Galician:insua
  • Portuguese:ínsua
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch:insla

Reflexes of an assumed Vulgar Latin variant*īsula (with regular loss ofn befores):

Borrowings:

• → English:insula(learned)
• → Proto-West Germanic:*insulā (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese:ínsula
• → Romanian:insulă
• → Spanish:ínsula

• “insula”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “insula”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "insula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• insula inGaffiot, 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”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “insula”, inSamuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor,A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “insula”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “insula”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

insula

1. inflection ofinsular:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• IPA^(key):[ˈinsula]

insula f

1. definitenominativesingular ofinsulă: theisland
2. definiteaccusativesingular ofinsulă: theisland

Back-formation frominsulasyon, fromEnglishinsulation. Also, apseudo-Hispanism thinking a verbSpanishinsular(“insular; relating to islands”) exists to mean“to insulate”. However, the proper Spanish term for“to insulate” isSpanishaislar. Seeaysla. Alternatively, possiblyborrowed fromSpanishínsula(“island”), fromLatinīnsula, but the word is obsolete in Spanish. Possibledoublet ofisla.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ʔinsuˈla/[ʔɪn̪.sʊˈla]
• Rhymes:-a
• Syllabification:in‧su‧la

insulá (Baybayin spellingᜁᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ)

1. act ofinsulation

   Synonyms:bukod,hiwalay,aysla