America

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English [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Americus, Latinized form of the forename of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), Italian explorer. Vespucci was named in honor of St. Emericus, whose name is derived from Middle High German Haimirich (“ruler of the Home”), from heim (“home”) and rich (“powerful”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Proper noun [edit]

America (plural Americas)

  1. The United States of America.
  2. The landmass now divided into the continents of North and South America.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 691:
      Franciscan attitudes in the Canaries offered possible precedents for what Europe now came to call ‘the New World’, or, through a somewhat tangled chain of circumstances, ‘America’.
  3. (often with a possessive pronoun) an idealized destination or object of one's ambition
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II.402:
      Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.

Usage notes [edit]

Residents of the United States of America may refer to their country as the "United States" (more formal), "America" (common and often patriotic), "the U.S.A.", or simply "the States" (informal). Residents of Alaska, America's northernmost state, refer to mainland America as "the lower 48" (informal).

Residents of the United Kingdom typically refer to the United States of America as "America". Residents of Canada less frequently refer to the United States of America as "America", referring otherwise to "the United States" (more formal), "the U.S." (common), or simply "the States" (informal).

The plural form "the Americas" is common when referring to North and South America together, to avoid ambiguity. Seen as a single continent, it is commonly "the continent of America".

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See also [edit]

Translations [edit]

Continent of America (see also Americas)
United States of America — see United States of America

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Italian [edit]

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia it

Proper noun [edit]

America f

  1. (continent) America

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Latin [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Feminine form of Latin Americus, Latinization of Amerigen, from the name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512). First recorded in 1507 for South America;[1] first applied to both North and South America by Mercator in 1538.

The name was apparently coined by Matthias Ringmann, first as Amerigen "land of Amerigo", from Amerigo and gen, the accusative case of Greek gē "earth". It was Latinized and then feminized to accord with the feminine names of Asia, Africa, and Europa.[2]

Amerigo is the Italian form of a Gothic personal name, Amalric "master workman", from amal "work" and ric "power".

Proper noun [edit]

America (genitive Americae); f, first declension

  1. America.

Inflection [edit]

nominative America
genitive Americae
dative Americae
accusative Americam
ablative Americā
vocative America
locative Americae

References [edit]

  1. ^ Hebert, John R., "The Map That Named America: Library Acquires 1507 Waldseemüller Map of the World" [1], Information Bulletin, Library of Congress.
  2. ^ Toby Lester, December 2009. "Putting America on the Map", Smithsonian 40:9.

Romanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Latin America.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: [aˈme.ri.ka]

Proper noun [edit]

America f (plural Americi)

  1. America

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Declension [edit]

singular plural
gender f indefinite definite indefinite definite
Nom/Acc
America Americi Americile
Gen/Dat
Americii
Americilor

Related terms [edit]

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