Hispaniola

Meaning

Proper Noun

• island Caribbean (region), divided into the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Related

Similar words

• Haiti, Haïti, Hayti, San Domingo, Santo Domingo

Broader meaning words

• Greater Antilles

Origin

• A borrowing of Peter Martyr's Latin Hispaniola (equivalent to Hispania + -ola), used in his Decades to translate De las Casas's Spanish Española, a clipping of la isla española, translating Columbus's Latin insula Hispania, bestowed upon its 'discovery' in 1492.