paeninsula

See also: pæninsula

Latin

Alternative forms

• pænīnsula, pēnīnsula

Etymology

Coined by Roman historian (59 BC – AD 17) Titus Livius, from paene (“nearly, almost”) +‎ īnsula (“island”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pae̯ˈnin.su.la/, [päe̯ˈnĩːs̠ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈnin.su.la/, [peˈninsulä]

Noun

paenīnsula f (genitive paenīnsulae); first declension

1. peninsula

   Italia et Graecia paeninsulae sunt. ― Italy and Greece are peninsulas.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	paenīnsula	paenīnsulae
genitive	paenīnsulae	paenīnsulārum
dative	paenīnsulae	paenīnsulīs
accusative	paenīnsulam	paenīnsulās
ablative	paenīnsulā	paenīnsulīs
vocative	paenīnsula	paenīnsulae

Related terms

• īnsula (see also its derived and related terms)

Descendants

• Catalan: península
• English: peninsula
• French: péninsule
• Galician: península
• Italian: penisola
• Portuguese: península
• Romanian: peninsulă
• Spanish: península, Peñíscola

References

• “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