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America en · PROPN

Pronunciation

(Southern-England) audio
/əˈmɚ.ɪkə/ (nonstandard)
/əˈmɛɹɪkə/ (British, Received-Pronunciation, Southern, Standard)
/əˈmeɹəkə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/əˈmɛɹɪkeɪ/ (obsolete)
/ɐ̃mˈɾi(ː)käː/ (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South-Asia, Sri-Lanka)
/əmɛ(ː)ˈrɪkɑː/ (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South-Asia, Sri-Lanka)
/əmˈɾi(ː)kɑː/ (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South-Asia, Sri-Lanka)
/əˈmɛɹɪkə/ (Canada, General-American)
/əˈme(ː)rɪkɑː/ (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South-Asia, Sri-Lanka)
/əˈmɛɾɪkə/ (Scotland, Wales)
/əˈmɚ.əkə/ (nonstandard)
(US) audio
/əˈmɛɹəkə/ (Canada, General-American)
/əˈmɛɹɪkɔː/ (obsolete)
/əˈmɛɹkə/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Germanic *amalą Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder. Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz ▲ Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.? Italian Amerigoder. New Latin Americalbor. English America Learned borrowing from New Latin America, feminine Latinized form of the Italian first name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). Amerigo is an Italian name derived from a Germanic language and is etymologically related to Henry and Emmerich. The earliest known use of America for the (South) American continent is on a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller; see Naming of the Americas for more. Although this is the most widely accepted derivation, it has also been suggested that it could originate from the name of the Amerrisque mountains in Nicaragua (from Mayan), and another disputed theory is that it derives from the surname of Richard Amerike (1440–1503), whose surname is an anglicised form of Welsh ap Meurig (“son of Meurig”), from Old Welsh Mouric, which could be a rendition of Latin Mauritius (compare Maurice).

Meanings

A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas.
- 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 ... 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”, in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, →DOI, pages 235–262:
- 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’. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 691:
- the Marsupials or pouched animals, being found throughout the continent of America, from the United States to Patagonia 1890, Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 796:
A country in North America; in full, United States of America.
- 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. 1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:
- Captain America, how did he get his powers? I think he... he got bitten by America. 2022 April 3, Roisin Conaty & al., Big Fat Quiz of Everything, Channel 4
- And once gain, America is saved from destruction by the heroes in “MEAL Team Six”. 2014 July 27, “Nuclear Weapons”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 12, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
- America, fuck yeah! / Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah! 2004, Trey Parker, “America, Fuck Yeah”:
- 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. 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, page 74:
- So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been and it remains unconditional surrender. 1945 April 16, Harry S. Truman, 10:06 from the start, in MP72-20 President Roosevelt’s Funeral and Procession; Truman – New President of U.S., Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
A female given name.
A town in Limburg, Netherlands.

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