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Hispaniola

//hɪsˌpæniˈəʊlə// name

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

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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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