paeninsula

== Latin == === Alternative forms === pænīnsula, pēnīnsula === Etymology === Coined by Roman historian (59 BC – AD 17) Titus Livius, from paene (“nearly, almost”) +‎ īnsula (“island”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pae̯ˈnĩː.sʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [peˈnin.su.la] === Noun === paenīnsula f (genitive paenīnsulae); first declension peninsula Italia et Graecia paeninsulae sunt. ― Italy and Greece are peninsulas. ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== īnsula (see also its derived and related terms) ==== Descendants ==== ==== References ==== “paeninsula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “paeninsula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “paeninsula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.