different between peninsula vs plateu

English

Alternative forms

• pæninsula

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin paen?nsula, from paene (“almost”), and ?nsula (“island”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??n?n.sj?.l?/, /?p?n.?n.sj?.l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??n?n.s?.l?/
• (General Australian, yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /p??n?n.??.l?/
• Homophone: peninsular (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

peninsula (plural peninsulas or peninsulae)

1. (geography) A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.

   Synonyms: byland, cape, chersonese, half-island, headland, ness

Derived terms

• Kenai Peninsula Borough
• Lake and Peninsula Borough
• Mahia Peninsula

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• peninsula at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Peninsula in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pe??nin.su.la/, [pe??n??s????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe?nin.su.la/, [p??ninsul?]

Noun

p?n?nsula f (genitive p?n?nsulae); first declension

1. Alternative form of paen?nsula ("peninsula").

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• peninsula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• peninsula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• peninsula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Scots

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Noun

peninsula (plural peninsulae)

1. A peninsula.