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Where does “isola” come from?

isola (Italian) comes from Vulgar Latin isula, from Latin Īnsula, from Proto-Italic enselā.

isola (Italian): island, isle; third-person singular present of...

Definitions

  1. island, isle; third-person singular present of...

Ancestry of “isola”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latinisula—
2LatinĪnsula—
3Proto-Italicenselā—

Words derived from “isola”

  • isolation
  • isolate
  • isolationism
  • isolationist
  • isolator
  • isolable
  • isolatable
  • isolative
  • optoisolator
  • immunoisolation
  • reisolation
  • isolationistic
  • reisolate
  • microisolation
  • microisolator
  • postisolation
  • isolational
  • immunoisolate
  • nonisolate
  • nonisolable
  • optoisolation
  • photoisolator
  • isolationistically
  • unisolable
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