America

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See also: América, Amèrica, and americà

English

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Alternative forms

  • (the United States of America): Merica/ 'Murica/ 'murica (nonstandard, often jocular or representing dialect)
  • (North and South America): Americas

Etymology

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 which is etymologically related to Emmerich.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

America (plural Americas)

  2. The United States of America.
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    • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎[2], 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.
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  4. The Americas.
    • 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’.
  5. A female given name.
  6. A town in Limburg, Netherlands.

Usage notes

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

Translations

United States of America — see United States of America
Americas — see Americas

See also

Italian

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Etymology

From New Latin America.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

America f

  1. (continent) the Americas

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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.

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

America f sg (genitive Americae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) America

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative America
Genitive Americae
Dative Americae
Accusative Americam
Ablative Americā
Vocative America

References

  • America in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  1. ^ John R. Hebert, "The Map That Named America: Library Acquires 1507 Waldseemüller Map of the World" ([1]), Information Bulletin, Library of Congress
  2. ^ Toby Lester, "Putting America on the Map", Smithsonian, 40:9 (December 2009)

Occitan

Proper noun

America f

  1. America (the Americas)

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin America.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

America f (plural Americi)

  1. America

Declension

Declension of America
singular plural
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

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Welsh

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

America f

  1. America

Derived terms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
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

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