America
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (the United States of America): Merica/ 'Murica/ 'murica (nonstandard, often jocular or representing dialect)
- (North and South America): Americas
Etymology[edit]
New Latin America, feminine latinized form of the Italian forename of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). Amerigo is an Italian name derived from a Germanic language and is etymologically related to Emmerich.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
America (plural Americas)
- The United States of America.
- 1837, George Sand, Stanley Young, transl., Mauprat[2], Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:
- For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
- 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist[3], volume 407, page 74:
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
- 2014 July 27, “Nuclear Weapons”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 12, HBO:
- And once gain, America is saved from destruction by the heroes in “MEAL Team Six”.
- The Americas.
- 1847, Joseph Dalton Hooker, On the Vegetation of the Galapagos Archipelago, as compared with that of some other Tropical Islands and of the Continent of America, DOI: , pages 235–262:
- The results of my examination ... for the most part allied to plants of the cooler part of America, or the uplands of the tropical latitudes ...
- 1877, John Dunmore Lang, Origins and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation: Demonstrating their Original Discovery and Progressive Settlement of the Continent of America, page 94:
- De Zuniga, a Spanish writer of some celebrity and the author of History of Philippine Islands, presuming on the uniform prevalence of easterly winds within the tropics ... the South Sea Islanders have originally come from the continent of America.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 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’.
- A female given name.
- A town in Limburg, Netherlands.
Usage notes[edit]
In English, the unqualified term "America" typically refers to the United States of America, with "American" typically referring to people and things from that country. The sense of "the Americas" is uncommon in contemporary English, but is still found in some specific circumstances, such as in reference to the Organization of American States.
Synonyms[edit]
- (United States of America) see United States of America#Synonyms
- (North and South America) Americas
Translations[edit]
See also[edit]
- (continents) continent; Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America (Category: en:Continents)
Italian[edit]
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America f
- (continent) the Americas
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Descendants[edit]
- →⇒ Slavomolisano: Lamerika
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Feminine form of Americus, the Latinized form of the forename of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). Amerigo is the Italian form of a Germanic personal name (see Emmerich).
First recorded in 1507 (together with the related term Amerigen) in the Cosmographiae Introductio, apparently written by Matthias Ringmann, in reference to South America;[1] first applied to both North and South America by Mercator in 1538. Amerigen means "land of Amerigo" and derives from Amerigo and gen, the accusative case of Greek gē "earth". America accorded with the feminine names of Asia, Africa, and Europa.[2]
Proper noun[edit]
America f sg (genitive Americae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | America |
Genitive | Americae |
Dative | Americae |
Accusative | Americam |
Ablative | Americā |
Vocative | America |
References[edit]
- America in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Occitan[edit]
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Proper noun[edit]
America f
- America (the Americas)
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Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
America f (plural Americi)
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) Americă | America | (niște) Americi | Americile |
genitive/dative | (unei) Americi | Americii | (unor) Americi | Americilor |
vocative | America, Americă | Americilor |
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Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
America f
Derived terms[edit]
- America Ladin (“Latin America”)
- Americanaidd (“American”)
- Americanes (“American woman”)
- Americanwr (“American man”)
- Canolbarth America (“Central America”)
- De America (“South America”)
- Gogledd America (“North America”)
- Unol Daleithiau America (“United States of America”)
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
America | unchanged | unchanged | Hamerica |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
- English terms derived from New Latin
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Germanic languages
- English 4-syllable words
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- English countable proper nouns
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- English given names
- English female given names
- en:Towns in Limburg, Netherlands
- en:Towns in the Netherlands
- en:Places in Limburg, Netherlands
- en:Places in the Netherlands
- en:Continents
- English eponyms
- en:America
- en:Countries in North America
- en:United States
- Italian terms derived from New Latin
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:America
- it:Continents
- Latin terms derived from Italian
- Latin terms derived from Germanic languages
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin singularia tantum
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- New Latin
- la:Continents
- Occitan terms borrowed from New Latin
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- Occitan feminine nouns
- oc:Continents
- Romanian terms borrowed from Latin
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- Romanian feminine nouns
- ro:Place names
- Welsh terms borrowed from New Latin
- Welsh terms derived from New Latin
- Welsh terms with IPA pronunciation
- Welsh lemmas
- Welsh proper nouns
- Welsh feminine nouns
- cy:Countries