autostrada

See also: autostráda, autostradă, and autostradą

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian auto

Italian auto-

Italian strada

Italian autostradabor.

English autostrada

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Noun

autostrada (plural autostradas or autostrade)

1. A motorway in Italy (and some other countries)
   • 1977, America’s Highways, 1776-1976: A History of the Federal-Aid Program, page 117, column 1:

     Chief MacDonald also warned of another threat to free highways in the possible resurgence of the private toll road, for which the Italian autostrade were the current models.

   • 1994, Nicole Franchini, Karen Brown, Karen Brown’s Italian Country Bed and Breakfasts, Travel Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Tolls on Italian autostrade are quite steep, ranging from $15 to $20 for a three-hour stretch, but offering the fastest and most direct way to travel between cities.

   • 2001, Yvonne D’Amico, Victor D’Amico, Sharing a Lifetime Passion for Europe, Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 209:

     Italian autostrade are even more impressive than German autobahns because constructing a road in Italy is so much more challenging.

   • 2018, D. Medina Lasansky, Hidden Histories: The Alternative Guide to Florence + Tuscany (Critical Tuscan Studies), didapress, →ISBN, page 116:

     According to a 1933 AAA guide to motoring abroad, Americans were reassured that unlike US highways, the Italian autostrade were not crowded.

   • 2018, Mary K. Jensen, Rudy’s Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe, She Writes Press, →ISBN:

     now, exactly one year after a honeymoon night on the Edinburgh roof, our union is being tested again, this time on the Italian autostrade leading from Rome.

Italian

Etymology

From auto- +‎ strada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw.tosˈtra.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧strà‧da

Noun

autostrada f (plural autostrade)

1. motorway; expressway; freeway; highway

   autostrada a pedaggio ― tollway; toll motorway; turnpike

Derived terms

• Autostrada Adriatica
• Autostrada Alpe-Adria
• Autostrada Azzurra
• Autostrada dei Due Mare
• Autostrada dei Fiori
• Autostrada dei Laghi
• Autostrada dei Trafori
• Autostrada dei Vini
• Autostrada del Brennero
• Autostrada del Frejus
• Autostrada del Sole
• Autostrada della Cisa
• Autostrada della Val d'Astico
• Autostrada della Valle d'Aosta
• Autostrada di Alemagna
• Autostrada Milano-Mare
• Autostrada Serenissima
• autostradale

Descendants

• → Albanian: autostradë
• → Bulgarian: автостра́да (avtostráda), аутостра́да (autostráda)
• → English: autostrada
• → Hebrew: אוטוסטרדה
• → Hungarian: autósztráda
• → Latvian: autostrāde
• → Lithuanian: autostrada
• → Macedonian: автостра́да (avtostráda)
• → Polish: autostrada
• → Romanian: autostradă
• → Russian: автостра́да (avtostráda)
• → Serbo-Croatian: а̀утостра̄да
• → Slovak: autostráda
• → Swedish: autostrada
• → Ukrainian: автостра́да (avtostráda)

Further reading

• “autostrada”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Lithuanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Noun

autostradà f (plural autostrãdos) stress pattern 2

1. highway

   Synonyms: magistralė, (most common) greitkelis

Declension

Declension of autostradà

	singular	plural
nominative	autostradà	autostrãdos
genitive	autostrãdos	autostrãdų
dative	autostrãdai	autostrãdoms
accusative	autostrãdą	autostradàs
instrumental	autostradà	autostrãdomis
locative	autostrãdoje	autostrãdose
vocative	autostrãda	autostrãdos

References

• “autostrada”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2026
• “autostrada”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2026

Polish

autostrada

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian auto

Italian auto-

Italian strada

Italian autostradabor.

Polish autostrada

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw.tɔˈstra.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: au‧to‧stra‧da

Noun

autostrada f (related adjective autostradowy)

1. motorway, freeway, expressway, controlled-access highway (type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated)

Declension

Declension of autostrada

	singular	plural
nominative	autostrada	autostrady
genitive	autostrady	autostrad
dative	autostradzie	autostradom
accusative	autostradę	autostrady
instrumental	autostradą	autostradami
locative	autostradzie	autostradach
vocative	autostrado	autostrady

Further reading

• “autostrada”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “autostrada”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• autostrada in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

auto- + Italian strada (“road”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎutostraːda/
• Hyphenation: a‧u‧to‧stra‧da

Noun

àutostrāda f (Cyrillic spelling а̀утостра̄да)

1. highway

   Synonyms: autocesta, autoput

Declension

Declension of autostrada

	singular	plural
nominative	autostrada	autostrade
genitive	autostrade	autostrada
dative	autostradi	autostradama
accusative	autostradu	autostrade
vocative	autostrado	autostrade
locative	autostradi	autostradama
instrumental	autostradom	autostradama

Swedish

Noun

autostrada c

1. an autostrada, a motorway

   Vid provkörningar har det dock visat sig att vagnen på autostradorna lätt kommer upp i 110 km.

   In test runs it has, however, been shown that the vehicle [the 1939 Volkswagen] on the autostradas easily reaches 110 km [per hour].

Declension

Declension of autostrada

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	autostrada	autostradas
	definite	autostradan	autostradans
plural	indefinite	autostrador	autostradors
	definite	autostradorna	autostradornas

Synonyms

• motorväg

References

• “autostrada”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)