peninsular

Learned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula +‎ -ar.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə(ɹ)/, /ˈpɛn.ɪn.sjʊ.lə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəˈnɪn.sə.ləɹ/
• (General Australian, yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /pəˈnɪn.ʃə.lə(ɹ)/
• Homophone: peninsula (non-rhotic)

peninsular (comparative more peninsular, superlative most peninsular)

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or connected with a peninsula.

   The lakeside cottage was on a peninsular spit of land.

2. Exhibiting a narrow provincialism; parochial.

peninsular (plural peninsulars)

1. One who inhabits a peninsula.
2. (historical) A person born on the Iberian Peninsula who emigrated to a (contemporary or former) Spanish colony.
3. Misspelling of peninsula, found chiefly in non-rhotic accents.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:peninsular.

Borrowed from Latin paenīnsulāris.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

peninsular m or f (masculine and feminine plural peninsulars)

1. peninsular (relating to a peninsula)

peninsular m or f by sense (plural peninsulars)

1. peninsular (inhabitant of a peninsula)

peninsular (not comparable)

1. peninsular

Borrowed from Latin paenīnsulāris.

• Hyphenation: pe‧nin‧su‧lar

peninsular m or f (plural peninsulares)

1. (geography) peninsular (of or relating to a peninsula)

• península

Borrowed from French péninsulaire. By surface analysis, peninsulă +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /peninsuˈlar/

peninsular m or n (feminine singular peninsulară, masculine plural peninsulari, feminine and neuter plural peninsulare)

1. peninsular

From Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, península +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /peninsuˈlaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pe‧nin‧su‧lar

peninsular m or f (masculine and feminine plural peninsulares)

1. peninsular

peninsular m (plural peninsulares)

1. (historical, Latin America, US, Philippines, obsolete) Spaniard born in the Iberian Peninsula who immigrated into the colonies of the Spanish Empire^[1][2][3]

   Synonyms: español, castellano

   Coordinate terms: criollo, americano, insular, filipino, filipina

• “peninsular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10