# Hispaniola

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /hɪsˌpæniˈəʊlə/ · frequency rank #62,971

## Definitions
1. An island of the Caribbean, divided politically into the independent nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

## Etymology
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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/hispaniola