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English

Etymology

From Middle English brayn, brain, from Old English bræ?n (“brain”), from Proto-Germanic *bragn? (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mreg?nom (“skull, brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mreg?- (“marrow, sinciput”) + *men- (“mind, to think”). Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek ??????? (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?n, IPA^(key): /b?e?n/
• Homophone: brane
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

brain (plural brains)

1. The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.

   Synonyms: harns; see also Thesaurus:brain
2. (informal) An intelligent person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:genius

   1. (plural only) A person who provides the intelligence required for something.

3. (in the plural) Intellect.
   • 2008 Quaker Action (magazine) Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers, Fall 2008, Vol. 89, No. 3, p. 8:

     "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.

   1. (in the singular) An intellectual or mental capacity.

4. By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.

5. (slang, vulgar) Oral sex.
   • 2012, Mack Maine featuring Turk and Mystikal, I'm On It

     You said I got brain from your dame in the range

     In the passing lane

     But you really ain't got no proof

6. (informal, slang) Mind.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (brain lobes) brain lobe; frontal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe ^{(Category: en:Brain)}

Verb

brain (third-person singular simple present brains, present participle braining, simple past and past participle brained)

1. (transitive) To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
2. (transitive, slang) To strike (someone) on the head.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To destroy; to put an end to.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To conceive in the mind; to understand.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:brain.

Translations

Further reading

• brain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Barin, Brian, Rabin, abrin, bairn, brian

Irish

Noun

brain m

1. inflection of bran:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

brain

1. Alternative form of brayn

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• broin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bran?/

Noun

brain m

1. inflection of bran:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brai?n/

Noun

brain m pl

1. plural of brân

Mutation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nsju?l?/

Noun

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

   • 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.

Derived terms

• perinsular

Translations

Anagrams

• inulas, uinals

Esperanto

Etymology

insulo (“island”) +? -a

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?sula/
• Hyphenation: in?su?la
• Rhymes: -ula
• Audio:

Adjective

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

1. insular

Interlingua

Noun

insula (plural insulas)

1. island

Related terms

• insular

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ensel?, of uncertain origin. The resemblance to Ancient Greek ????? (nêsos, “island”) and Proto-Celtic *enist? (“island”) (whence Breton enez, Irish inis and Welsh ynys) appears to be accidental.

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.su.la/, [???s????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.su.la/, [?insul?]

Noun

?nsula f (genitive ?nsulae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Old Portuguese: inssoa, insoa, insua
  • Galician: insua
  • Portuguese: ínsua
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: insla
• ? English: insula
• ? Low German: Insel
• ? Middle High German: insel
  • Alemannic German: Insle
  • Bavarian: Insl
  • German: Insel, Insul
  • Hunsrik: Insel
  • Luxembourgish: Insel
  • Yiddish: ??????? (indzl), ?????? (inzl)
• ? Portuguese: ínsula
• ? Romanian: insul?
• ? Spanish: ínsula
• ? Vulgar Latin: *isula
  • Corsican: isula
  • Emilian: îsla
  • Italian: isola
  • Lombard: isula
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: isla
  • Old French: isle
    • Middle French: isle
      • French: île, ile
        • Antillean Creole: zil
        • Haitian Creole: zil, zile
        • Mauritian Creole: zil
    • Norman: île
    • Walloon: iye
    • ? Middle English: yle, ile
      • English: isle
  • Neapolitan: isule
  • Old Occitan: illa, ilha, isla
    • Occitan: iscla, illa
    • Old Catalan: illa
      • Catalan: illa
      • ? Old Portuguese: illa, ilha
        • Galician: illa
        • Portuguese: ilha
          • Kabuverdianu: ilha
        • ? Leonese: illa
        • ? Mirandese: ilha
  • Old Spanish: isla
    • Ladino: ísla, ízla
    • Spanish: isla, ínsula
      • Chamicuro: yishla
      • Papiamentu: isla
      • ? Basque: irla
      • ? Ilocano: isla
      • ? Inabaknon: isla
      • ? Tagalog: ísla
    • ? Asturian: islla, isla
    • ? Extremaduran: isla
    • ? Old Portuguese: ysla, yslla, yslha
  • Piedmontese: ìsola/ìsula
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: isule, ìsule
  • Sardinian: isula
  • Sicilian: ìsula
  • Venetian: ixo?a, ixola
  • ? Albanian: ishull

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)
• insula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• 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)?^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?insula]

Noun

insula f

1. definite nominative singular of insul?: the island
2. definite accusative singular of insul?: the island