peninsula

• pæninsula

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/
• (General Australian, yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /pəˈnɪn.ʃə.lə/

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• Homophone: peninsular (non-rhotic accents)

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

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

Borrowed from Spanish península.

• Hyphenation: pe‧nin‧su‧la
• IPA^(key): /peninˈsula/

peninsula

1. peninsula

   Synonym: rawis

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peːˈnin.su.la/, [peːˈnĩːs̠ʊɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈnin.su.la/, [peˈninsulä]

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 Spanish península.

• Hyphenation: pe‧nin‧su‧la
• IPA^(key): /peˌninsuˈla/, [peˌnin.sʊˈla]

penínsulá

1. peninsula

   Synonym: tangway

• Peninsulang Malayo (“Malay Peninsula”)

• peninsulares

• “peninsula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018