# insula
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɪnsjʊlə/
* (US) IPA: /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, “A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects”, 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, published 2012, page 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
### Anagrams

* inulas, uinals

## Esperanto
### Etymology

insulo (“island”) +‎ -a

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [inˈsula]
* Audio:(file)
* 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
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enselā, of uncertain origin. The relation to similar forms such as Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”) and Proto-Celtic *enistī (“island”) (whence Breton enez, Irish inis and Welsh ynys) is unclear.
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”). De Vaan considers this derivation phonetically solid, though semantically vague and unlikely. For an alternative he offers a connection of *-sul- to Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“place, ground”) as in solum; compare Lithuanian salà (“island”). Perhaps instead of foreign or substrate origin.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈin.su.la/, [ˈĩːs̠ʊɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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.

#### Derived terms

* Īnsula
* īnsulānus
* īnsulāris
* īnsulārius
* īnsulēnsis
* īnsulō
* īnsulōsus
* paenīnsula

#### Descendants

* 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 of n before s):
* Corsican: isula
* Emilian: îsla
* Franco-Provençal: ila
* Italian: isola
* Lombard: isla
* Navarro-Aragonese:
** Aragonese: isla
* Old French: isle
** Middle French: isle, île
*** French: île (see there for further descendants)
** Norman: île
** Walloon: iye
** → Middle English: yle, ile
*** English: isle
* Neapolitan: isule
* Old Catalan: illa
** Catalan: illa
** → Old Galician-Portuguese: illa, ilha
*** Galician: illa
*** Portuguese: ilha (see there for further descendants)
*** → Leonese: illa
*** → Mirandese: ilha
* Old Occitan: illa, ilha, isla
** Occitan: iscla, illa
* Old Spanish: isla
** Ladino: ísla, ízla
** Spanish: isla (see there for further descendants)
** → Asturian: islla, isla
** → Extremaduran: isla
** → Old Galician-Portuguese: ysla, yslla, yslha
* Piedmontese: isla
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: isule, ìsule
* Sardinian: isula
* Sicilian: ìsula
* Venetan: ixoła, ixola
* → Albanian: ishull
Borrowings:
* → English: insula (learned)
* → Proto-West Germanic: *insulā (see there for further descendants)
* → Portuguese: ínsula
* → Romanian: insulă
* → Spanish: ínsula

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “īnsula”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306

### Further reading

* “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

## Portuguese
### Verb

insula
* inflection of insular:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈinsula]

### Noun

insula f
* definite nominative singular of insulă: the island
* definite accusative singular of insulă: the island

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Back-formation of insulasyon, from English insulation. Also, a pseudo-Hispanism thinking a verb Spanish insular (“insular; relating to islands”) exists to mean “to insulate”. However, the proper Spanish term for “to insulate” is Spanish aislar. See aysla. Alternatively, possibly borrowed from Spanish ínsula (“island”), from Latin īnsula, but the word is obsolete in Spanish. Possible doublet of isla.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

insulá (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ)
* act of insulation
    Synonyms: bukod, hiwalay, aysla

#### Derived terms

* insulahin
* mag-insula
* pang-insula

#### Related terms

* aysla
* ayslado
* ayslador
* ayslamyento
* insulado
* insulador
* insular
* insulares
* insulasyon
* isla
* peninsula
* peninsulares