insulo

From Yiddish אינדזל (indzl), German Insel, Latin īnsula.

• IPA^(key): /inˈsulo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: in‧su‧lo

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insulo (accusative singular insulon, plural insuloj, accusative plural insulojn)

1. island
   • 2000 June, W. M. A. De Smet, “La “drakoj” de Komodo: Gigantaj bestoj sur izola insulo”, in Monato, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     Sur la negranda indonezia insulo Komodo vivas rimarkinde grandaj reptilioj kiuj ĝenerale estas citataj per la malĝusta nomo “Komodo-drakoj”.

     On the small Indonesian island of Komodo, there live remarkably large reptiles which are generally referred to by the incorrect name of "Komodo dragons".

insulo (plural insuli)

1. island

From īnsula (“island”) +‎ -ō (denominative verb suffix), on the model of French isoler.

īnsulō (present infinitive īnsulāre, perfect active īnsulāvī, supine īnsulātum); first conjugation

1. (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.

• īnsulātus

insulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of insular

• IPA^(key): [ˈinsulo]

insulo f

1. vocative singular of insulă