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paeninsula

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See also: pæninsula

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Coined by Livy (59 B.C.E. – 17 C.E.): paene (nearly”, “almost) + īnsula (island).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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paenīnsula f (genitive paenīnsulae); first declension

  1. peninsula
    Italia et Graecia paeninsulae sunt.Italy and Greece are peninsulas.

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative paenīnsula paenīnsulae
genitive paenīnsulae paenīnsulārum
dative paenīnsulae paenīnsulīs
accusative paenīnsulam paenīnsulās
ablative paenīnsulā paenīnsulīs
vocative paenīnsula paenīnsulae
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  • īnsula (see also its derived and related terms)

Descendants

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References

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  • paeninsula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • paeninsula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • paeninsula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit
  1. ^ Famous Firsts in the Ancient Greek and Roman World by David Matz (2000; McFarland; →ISBN, 9780786405992), page 121
    Livy was the first Roman author to combine the words paene (almost) and insula (island) into one: paeninsula. He used the word in the course of his description of the location of New Carthage, on the Spanish coast (26.42).