different between insula vs insult

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

English

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle French insulter (modern French insulter (“to insult”)) or its etymon Latin ?nsult?re, present active infinitive of ?nsult? (“to spring, leap or jump at or upon; to abuse, insult, revile, taunt”), the frequentative form of ?nsili? (“to bound; to leap in or upon”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + sali? (“to bound, jump, leap; to spring forth; to flow down”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to spring”)).

The noun is derived from Middle French insult (modern French insulte (“insult”)) or its etymon Late Latin insultus (“insult, reviling, scoffing”), from ?nsili? (“to bound; to leap in or upon”); see above.

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ?ns?lt?, IPA^(key): /?n?s?lt/
• Noun:
  • enPR: ?n?s?lt, IPA^(key): /??ns?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt
• Hyphenation: in?sult

Verb

insult (third-person singular simple present insults, present participle insulting, simple past and past participle insulted)

1. (transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: disrespect, affront, disgrace, slander, discourtesy, offense

   Antonym: compliment
2. (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone). [16th–19th c.]
4. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To leap or trample upon.

Conjugation

Related terms

• insolence
• insultation

Translations

Noun

insult (countable and uncountable, plural insults)

1. (uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.

   Synonyms: affront, (slang) diss, (obsolete) insultation, (Britain) offence, (US) offense, pejorative, (US, colloquial) slam, slight, slur; see also Thesaurus:offense

   Antonym: compliment
2. (countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).

   Synonyms: disgrace, outrage
3. (countable, medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
4. (countable, also figuratively, archaic) An assault or attack; (specifically, military, obsolete) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
5. (countable, obsolete) An act of leaping upon.

Derived terms

• add insult to injury

Translations

References

Further reading

• insult on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• insult (medical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• insult (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• sunlit, unlist, unslit

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?sul(t)/

Noun

insult m (plural insults)

1. insult

Related terms

• insultar

Further reading

• “insult” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in?sult]

Verb

insult

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of insulta