Talk:insulate

Latin verb
My Latin is decades out of practice so I won't change it directly without checking, but the verb is almost surely insulare, participle insulatus.

From my latin lessons long ago the primary meaning would be to put somebody or something on an island, and so to "insulate" him/her/it. The reasons were quarantine - which was most probably prior than Faraday's time and work at electricity and electrochemistry, when that word came to be used as 'electrical insulation' and in Joule's and Carnot's time when it came to be used in science about heath (which developed to thermodynamics, but to found that data firmly I should cite actual works, which I can't at the moment.

If/when I find the sources and/or confirmation of active latinists, I'l change that in the article. --Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 05:42, 15 May 2020 (UTC)


 * We list Latin verbs by the first person singular present tense. So that would be "insulo". SemperBlotto (talk) 05:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)