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America Definition

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English

Etymology

From Latin America.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

America (plural Americas)

  1. The continents of North and South America.
  2. The United States of America.

See also

Statistics

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on: America

Wikipedia it

Proper noun

America f.

  1. (continent) America

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

America f. (locative case Americae)

  1. America.

References

  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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin America.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

America f. (plural Americi)

  1. America

Derived terms

Declension

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

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