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Yes. The word insula is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

I1N1S1U1L1A1

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6-letter words (2 found)

INSULA,INULAS,

5-letter words (9 found)

ANILS,INULA,LUNAS,NAILS,SLAIN,SNAIL,ULANS,ULNAS,UNAIS,

4-letter words (23 found)

AILS,AINS,ALUS,ANIL,ANIS,ANUS,ISNA,LAIN,LIAS,LINS,LUNA,LUNS,NAIL,NILS,SAIL,SAIN,SAUL,SIAL,SUNI,ULAN,ULNA,UNAI,UNIS,

3-letter words (25 found)

AIL,AIN,AIS,ALS,ALU,ANI,ANS,INS,LAS,LIN,LIS,LUN,NAS,NIL,NIS,NUS,SAI,SAL,SAN,SAU,SIN,SUI,SUN,UNI,UNS,

2-letter words (13 found)

AI,AL,AN,AS,IN,IS,LA,LI,NA,NU,SI,UN,US,

You can make 72 words from insula according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of insula

insula

Etymology

From Latin insula (“island”). Doublet of isle.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɪnsjuːlə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɪnsʊlə/

Noun

insula (plural insulas or insulae)

  2. (historical) A block of buildings in a Roman town.
  4. (neuroanatomy) A structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus.
    Synonyms: insular cortex, island of Reil

Derived terms

  • perinsular

Translations

Anagrams

  • inulas, uinals

Esperanto

Etymology

insulo (“island”) +‎ -a

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [inˈsula]
  • Audio:
  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Hyphenation: in‧su‧la

Adjective

insula (accusative singular insulan, plural insulaj, accusative plural insulajn)

  1. insular

Interlingua

Noun

insula (plural insulas)

  1. island

Related terms

  • insular

Latin

Alternative forms

  • *isula

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enselā, of uncertain origin. The relation to similar forms such as Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”) and Proto-Celtic *enistī (“island”) (whence Breton enez, Irish inis and Welsh ynys) is unclear.

Pokorny (1959) tentatively connects it to salum (“the sea”): he posits ellipsis from terra in salō (“land in the sea”) to in (“in”) + salō, invoking the similar Ancient Greek word ἔναλος (énalos, “maritime”). De Vaan considers this derivation phonetically solid, though semantically vague.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈin.su.la/, [ˈĩːs̠ʊɫ̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.su.la/, [ˈinsulä]

Noun

īnsula f (genitive īnsulae); first declension

  1. island
  2. insula, a residential or apartment block (usually for the lower class), tenement, apartment building

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: inssoa, insoa, insua
    • Galician: insua
    • Portuguese: ínsua
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Romansch: insla

Reflexes of an assumed variant *īsula (with regular loss of n before s):

Borrowings:

  • → English: insula (learned)
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *insulā (see there for further descendants)
  • → Portuguese: ínsula
  • → Romanian: insulă
  • → Spanish: ínsula

References

  • “insula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “insula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • insula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • insula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “insula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “insula”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
  • “insula”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “insula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306

Portuguese

Verb

insula

  1. inflection of insular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈinsula]

Noun

insula f

  1. definite nominative singular of insulă: the island
  2. definite accusative singular of insulă: the island

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