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autostrada

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Noun

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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

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Etymology

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From auto- +‎ strada.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aw.tosˈtra.da/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ada
  • Hyphenation: au‧to‧strà‧da

Noun

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autostrada f (plural autostrade)

  1. motorway, expressway, freeway, highway, turnpike
    autostrada a pedaggiotollway, toll motorway/freeway

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • autostrada in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Noun

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autostradà f (plural autostrãdos) stress pattern 2

  1. highway
    Synonyms: magistralė, (most common) greitkelis

Declension

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Declension of autostradà
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) autostradà autostrãdos
genitive (kilmininkas) autostrãdos autostrãdų
dative (naudininkas) autostrãdai autostrãdoms
accusative (galininkas) autostrãdą autostradàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) autostradà autostrãdomis
locative (vietininkas) autostrãdoje autostrãdose
vocative (šauksmininkas) autostrãda autostrãdos

References

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  • autostrada”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
  • autostrada”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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autostrada

Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aw.tɔˈstra.da/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ada
  • Syllabification: au‧to‧stra‧da

Noun

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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)

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Further reading

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  • autostrada in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • autostrada in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • autostrada in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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auto- + Italian strada (road).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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àutostrāda f (Cyrillic spelling а̀утостра̄да)

  1. highway
    Synonyms: autocesta, autoput

Declension

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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

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Noun

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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].

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