Meaning

2 senses

  1. One who inhabits a peninsula.

  2. (historical)A person born on the Iberian Peninsula who emigrated to a (contemporary or former) Spanish colony.

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula + -ar. In the h

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

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Forms

plural: peninsulars / peninsulares
Singularpeninsular
Pluralpeninsulars / peninsulares

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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