insular
English
/ˈɪnsjələ/, /ˈɪnsəlɚ/
adj
Definitions
- Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.
- Situated on an island.
- Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little interaction with external parties; provincial.
- Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
- (anatomy) Relating to the insula in the brain
- (biochemistry) Relating to insulin
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin insularis (of belonging to an island).
Origin
Latin
insularis
Gloss
of belonging to an island
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- adipoinsular English
- enteroinsular English
- frontoinsular English
- insularism English
- insularity English
- insularization English
- insularize English
- insularly English
- microinsular English
- microinsularity English
- noninsular English
- operculoinsular English
- palaeoinsular English
- parainsular English
- parietoinsular English
- periinsular English
- perinsular English
- retroinsular English
- septinsular English
- subinsular English
- transinsular English
- insularis Latin
- īnsula Latin
- insulare Italian
- insular Spanish, Castilian