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Esperanto
Etymology
From Latin īnsula.
Pronunciation
Noun
insulo (accusative singular insulon, plural insuloj, accusative plural insulojn)
- island
2000 June, W. M. A. De Smet, “La “drakoj” de Komodo: Gigantaj bestoj sur izola insulo”, in Monato, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:
Derived terms
Ido
Noun
insulo (plural insuli)
- island
Latin
Etymology
From īnsula (“island”) + -ō (denominative verb suffix), on the model of French isoler.
Verb
īnsulō (present infinitive īnsulāre, perfect active īnsulāvī, supine īnsulātum); first conjugation
- (New Latin) to insulate
1776, W. B. Jelgersma, Specimen experimentorum lagenam Leidensem spectantium, volume 1, page 200:Ast cur tum Lagena N. 8 idem non praestat, si eodem modo insuletur?- But why does jar N. 8 not then act the same if it is insulated the same way?
1791, Luigi Galvani, “De Viribus Electricitatis In Motu Musculari Commentarius”, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque academia commentarii, volume 7, page 369:Primo itaque electricam machinam, et eum, qui illam versabat, insulavimus.- Accordingly we first insulated the electrical machine and the person operating it.
1793, Christoph Heinrich Pfaff, Diss. inaug. med. de electricitate sic dicta animali, page 22:Postrema methodo, si scilicet extremitates ut ajunt insulaveram, contractionum vis non aucta erat nec duratio.- By the last method, that is, if I had, as they say, insulated the extremities, neither the force nor the duration of the contractions would have increased.
Conjugation
Portuguese
Verb
insulo
- first-person singular present indicative of insular
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
insulo f
- vocative singular of insulă