peninsular

Learned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula +‎ -ar. In the historical sense borrowed from Spanish peninsular.

• (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)

2. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or connected with a peninsula or peninsulas.

   Coordinate term: insular

   The lakeside cottage was on a peninsular spit of land.

4. Exhibiting a narrow provincialism; parochial.

   Near-synonym: insular

peninsular (plural peninsulars or peninsulares)

1. One who inhabits a peninsula.
2. (historical) A person born on the Iberian Peninsula who emigrated to a (contemporary or former) Spanish colony.
   • 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 131:

     Some of the great merchants in the Indies were creoles, but the majority were peninsulares. These latter acted as effective intermediaries between Spain and the colonies.

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) [pə.nin.suˈlar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pə.nin.suˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pe.nin.suˈlaɾ]
• 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/ [pe.nĩn.suˈlaɾ]
• 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; peninsular.^[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], 10 December 2024