peninsula

• pæninsula (archaic)

Borrowed from Latin paenīnsula, from paene (“almost”), and īnsula (“island”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə/, /ˈpɛn.ɪn.sjʊ.lə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəˈnɪn.sə.lə/, /pɪˈnɪn.sjʊ.lə/, /ˈpɛn.ɪn.sjʊ.lə/
• (General Australian, yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /pəˈnɪn.ʃə.lə/

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• Homophone: peninsular (non-rhotic)

peninsula (plural peninsulas or peninsulae)

1. (geography) A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.

   Synonyms: byland, cape, chersonese, half-island, headland, ness

   • 1994 November 13, Mike Scully, “Lisa on Ice”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 8, production code 6F18:

     Man cancelling Lisa's inauguration as president: I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island. Don't worry, it's just a name.
     [Lisa and others are chased by fire-breathing monsters]
     Lisa: He said it was just a name!
     Man being chased by monsters: What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula.

• “peninsula”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Peninsula in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

Borrowed from Spanish península.

• Hyphenation: pe‧nin‧su‧la
• IPA^(key): /peˈninsula/ [peˈn̪in̪.su.l̪a]

península

1. peninsula

   Synonym: rawis

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [peːˈnĩː.sʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈnin.su.la]

pēnīnsula f (genitive pēnīnsulae); first declension

1. alternative form of paenīnsula (“peninsula”)

First-declension noun.

• “peninsula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “peninsula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• peninsula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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peninsula (plural peninsulae)

1. A peninsula.

Borrowed from English peninsula.

peninsula class IX (plural peninsula class X)

1. peninsula

   Synonym: rasi

Borrowed from Spanish península, from Latin paenīnsula.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /peˈninsula/ [pɛˌn̪in̪.sʊˈla]
• Rhymes: -insula
• Syllabification: pe‧nin‧su‧la

penínsulá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜈᜒᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ)

1. peninsula

   Synonym: tangway

• Peninsulang Malayo

• “peninsula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018