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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Coined by Livy (59 B.C.E. – 17 C.E.): paene (“nearly”, “almost”) + īnsula (“island”).
Pronunciation
Noun
paenīnsula f (genitive paenīnsulae); first declension
- peninsula
- Italia et Graecia paeninsulae sunt. ― Italy and Greece are peninsulas.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
- īnsula (see also its derived and related terms)
Descendants
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit
- ^ 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).