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語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɪnsjuːlə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɪnsulə/
• ハイフネーション: in‧su‧la

名詞

insula (plural insulas or insulae)

1. (historical) A block of buildings in a Roman town.
2. (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.

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• inulas, uinals

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈĩː.sʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈin.su.la]

名詞

īnsula f (genitive īnsulae); first declension

1. island
   • 1772, Finnur Jónsson, chapter 1, in Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ [The Ecclesiastical History of Iceland]‎, volume 1, Copenhagen: Orphanotrophius Regii, section 1, page 1:

     Islandia eſt inſula valde montoſa pariter ac ſinuoſa, in mari Caledonio ſita ſub gradu latitud: 64. 55.

     [Īslandia est īnsula montōsa pariter ac sinuōsa, in marī Calēdoniō sita sub gradū *latitud: 64. 55.]

     Iceland is a both mountainous and likewise rugged island, situated in the Caledonian Sea at a latitude of 64 degrees 55 minutes.

     ("latitud" is an invention by the author; lātitūdo would be the more normal term)

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

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

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

Reflexes of an assumed Vulgar Latin variant *īsula (with regular loss of n before s):

Reflexion of *īsla which was early realised as *īscla (with a prosthetic c):

• Southern and insular Italian languages
  • Neapolitan: Ischia, isca
  • Calabrian: isca
  • Sardinian: isca
  • Sicilian: iscra, isca

Borrowings:

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

参照

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, 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