Hispaniola.
An island of the Caribbean, divided politically into the independent nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Meaning & usage
An island of the Caribbean, divided politically into the independent nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Where this word comes from
A borrowing of Peter Martyr's Latin Hispaniola (equivalent to Hispania + -ola), used in his Decades to translate De las Casas's Spanish Española (in a more latinized form), a clipping of la Isla Española (“the Spanish Island”), translating Columbus's Latin Insula Hispania, bestowed upon its discovery in 1492. Doublet of Española.
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