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The LOC.GOV Wise Guide : How Did America Get Its Name? America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.

What was America called before?

On September 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the “United States” of America. This replaced the term “United Colonies,” which had been in general use.

What is the meaning of the word America?

The definition of America is the term most often used to refer to the United States. An example of the word America is to refer to the 50 states that make up the United States. An example of a country that is part of the Americas is Canada. noun.

Why is America called America and not Columbia?

All countries were seen as feminine (like her lady Liberty today), so Waldseemüller used a feminine, Latinized form of Amerigo to name the new continents “America.” Cartographers tended to copy one another’s choices, so Columbus was left off the map. The rest is history.

When was the name America first used?

German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is credited with first using the name America in 1507 on a large 12-panel map based on traveling accounts of explorers of the New World, and in particular those of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

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That is practically the only thing you could argue that Hispanic America not even latin america have in common, the language. alfanje 2:52 am on September 23, 2008 | # | Reply ❋ Unknown (2008)

The republicans have STUNK UP AMERICA (COMPLETELY) you cn’t get rid of the stinch. instead of talking about Barack O’Bama’s aircraft and the smell why dont they talk about the STINKING ECONOMY AND THE STINKING WAR IN IRAQ and what it will take to get america out of this MESS. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Your position in this case that it was more likely America who killed berg, isnt that of the avg liberal in the U.S., but that of arab street, and European radicals, who admit to hating america. ❋ Unknown (2004)

DEBTORS UPDATE: BANK OF AMERICA RESPONDS!!! bank of america credit card fees are a scam ❋ Unknown (2010)

ANT_Da_Gobbler Actually its Central AMERICA but I wasn’t born there RT @NiiCce_LoOK_kiA: @ANT_Da_GobbLer lol panama is not a part of america #Fail sorry ❋ Unknown (2010)

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War of 1812…All america had to do was escort its merchant ships with naval vessals on their trips to europe to stop the impressment of sailors…opps, Thomas Jefferson decimated the navy so this was not an option…ok…all america had to do was re-call all its citizens west of the ohio river valley, opps they were making too much money…all america had to do was stop calling for an invasion of canada to retake one of its original lands…opps, the warhawks were all about the land$…..america did not “have” to fight impressment or native americans in the western territories…islolation, bruce? ❋ Unknown (2006)

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Waste of time talking to someone as dumb as you if you think you can fool AMERICA another second. bush is trying to help his friend McCain, but much to late, much to little, we the people of america are tried of waiting while you and yours rob us of our futures, kill our young, and then go off to the spas and hunt in England, no you can not fool us a second time but do not stop the message of change, vote and support Obama / Biden, and vote all the republicans out of office. leave no stone unturned, I am a republican and with shame I said its time for the gop to just go. ❋ Unknown (2008)

May 15, 2008 at 2:18 pm here’s wun 4 yew, Lyta………….. since we noes America like teh back of our hand america – west side story ❋ Unknown (2008)

White Person: i think that it sucks that racism in america is synonymous with whiteness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Health care in america is a crime and a rip off and everyone knows it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Obama should realize the reason dem senators don’t want to go along with his govermant ran health care that would destroy health care in america is that the people that vote for them have said enough is enough. ❋ Unknown (2009)

THEY KNOW that everyone in america is strapped and that you have mortgaged our economy up to its eyeballs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Making large profits by denying health benefits and letting people die in america is immoral. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Republicans: The surest sign that the intelligence level in america is on the decline. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just remember however that captain america is an army soldier with a great physic after the experience. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Progressaurus Rex says: can we surmise that the percentage of total dipshits in america is roughly equal to the percentage of georgians that will vote for ralph reed? or is the rate of total dipshittiness higher in georgia? ❋ Unknown (2006)

America:i wonder if England wants a [rematch], since they think [we suck] so much and are all fat. (the rest of the world is [welcome] to) ❋ Dont Be A Fag (2009)

[America], my [home], [sweet home]. ❋ Rice Hater (2006)

American 1: Hey, look, a mexican!
American 2: Yes, just look at that [filthy bitch].
American 1: Hey let’s play videogames and simulate that we’re [freeing] countries that aren’t asking to be [freed]!
American 2: Yeah! Pwned you n00bs! ❋ Rodrigo-oh (2006)

a:for godsakes stop EATING, u [fatfuck]!!
B: sorry im from americaex: can i get 3 [big mac], 5 doublecheese, [and a diet coke] for the drink. ❋ Mope (2006)

[South America], [North America] and [Central America] ❋ Me4543 (2006)

american pilot 1 — quick, shoot that [british tank] it ,dosn’t have an american flag!american pilot 2 — roger that goose, im going in top gun style… they come in to land on the [aircraft carrier] after a morning of british tank bustingamerican pilot 1 — this is goose requesting a fly past at an incredibly unrealstic altitiude while playing ‘take my breath away’
[air traffic controller] — roger thats a go, do it for the americans…(queue american flag drops down in background) ❋ Alex Hennessy (2006)

[America]: bringing [democracy] to the world, whether they [like it] or not ❋ Iceberg1031 (2007)

america ❋ Melhascowaids (2018)

[United States of America] ❋ -.-» (2007)

america is [racist] ❋ Ur Waifus Crusty Toenail (2021)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The naming of the Americas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal. However, some have suggested other explanations, including being named after the Amerrisque mountain range in Nicaragua, or after Richard Amerike, a merchant from Bristol, England.

Usage[edit]

In modern English, North and South America are generally considered separate continents, and taken together are called the Americas in the plural, parallel to similar situations such as the Carolinas and the Dakotas. When conceived as a unitary continent, the form is generally the continent of America in the singular. However, without a clarifying context, singular America in English commonly refers to the United States of America.^[1]

Historically, in the English-speaking world, the term America used to refer to a single continent until the 1950s (as in Van Loon’s Geography of 1937): According to historians Kären Wigen and Martin W. Lewis,^[2]

While it might seem surprising to find North and South America still joined into a single continent in a book published in the United States in 1937, such a notion remained fairly common until World War II. It cannot be coincidental that this idea served American geopolitical designs at the time, which sought both Western Hemispheric domination and disengagement from the «Old World» continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By the 1950s, however, virtually all American geographers had come to insist that the visually distinct landmasses of North and South America deserved separate designations.

This shift did not seem to happen in most other cultural hemispheres on Earth, such as Romance-speaking (including France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, and the postcolonial Romance-speaking countries of Latin America and Africa), Germanic (but excluding English) speaking (including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands), Baltic-Slavic languages (including Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria) and elsewhere, where America is still considered a continent encompassing the North America and South America subcontinents,^[3][4] as well as Central America.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Earliest use of name[edit]

The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America.^[11] It appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France.^[12] These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, anonymous but apparently written by Waldseemüller’s collaborator Matthias Ringmann,^[13] states, «I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women». America is also inscribed on the Paris Green Globe (or Globe vert) which has been attributed to Waldseemüller and dated to 1506–07: as well as the single name inscribed on the northern and southern parts of the New World, the continent also bears the inscription: America ab inuentore nuncupata (America, named after its discoverer).^[14]

Mercator on his map called North America «America or New India» (America sive India Nova).^[15]

Amerigo Vespucci[edit]

Americus Vesputius was the Latinized version of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci’s name, the forename being an old Italianization (compare modern Italian Enrico) of Medieval Latin Emericus (see Saint Emeric of Hungary), from the Old High German name Emmerich, which may have been a merger of several Germanic names – Amalric, Ermanaric and Old High German Haimirich, from Proto-Germanic *amala- (‘vigor, bravery’), *ermuna- (‘great; whole’) or *haima- (‘home’) + *rīk- (‘ruler’) (compare *Haimarīks).^{[16][better source needed]}

Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who may have been the first to assert that the West Indies and corresponding mainland were not part of Asia’s eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus’s voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to the Europeans.^[17][18]

Vespucci was apparently unaware of the use of his name to refer to the new landmass, as Waldseemüller’s maps did not reach Spain until a few years after his death.^[13] Ringmann may have been misled into crediting Vespucci by the widely published Soderini Letter, a sensationalized version of one of Vespucci’s actual letters reporting on the mapping of the South American coast, which glamorized his discoveries and implied that he had recognized that South America was a continent separate from Asia.^[19] Spain officially refused to accept the name America for two centuries, saying that Columbus should get credit, and Waldseemüller’s later maps, after Ringmann’s death, did not include it; in 1513 he labelled it «Terra Incognita» with a note about Columbus’s discovery of the land.^[20]

Following Waldseemüller, the Swiss scholar Heinrich Glarean included the name America in a 1528 work of geography published in Basel. There, four years later, the German scholar Simon Grinaeus published a map, which Hans Holbein and Sebastian Münster (who had made sketches of Waldseemüller’s 1507 map) contributed to; this labelled the continent America Terra Nova (America, the New Land). In 1534, Joachim von Watt labelled it simply America.^[20] Gerardus Mercator applied the names North and South America on his influential 1538 world map; by this point, the naming was irrevocable.^[20] Acceptance may have been aided by the «natural poetic counterpart» that the name America made with Asia, Africa, and Europa.^[13]

Named after a Nicaraguan mountain range[edit]

In 1874, Thomas Belt published the indigenous name of the Amerrisque Mountains in present-day Nicaragua.^[21] The next year, Jules Marcou suggested a derivation of the continent’s name from this mountain range.^[22] Marcou corresponded with Augustus Le Plongeon, who wrote: «The name AMERICA or AMERRIQUE in the Mayan language means, a country of perpetually strong wind, or the Land of the Wind, and … the [suffixes] can mean … a spirit that breathes, life itself.»^[23]

In this view, native speakers shared this indigenous word with Columbus and members of his crew, and Columbus made landfall in the vicinity of these mountains on his fourth voyage.^[22][23] The name America then spread via oral means throughout Europe relatively quickly even reaching Waldseemüller, who was preparing a map of newly reported lands for publication in 1507.^[23] Waldseemüller’s work in the area of denomination takes on a different aspect in this view. Jonathan Cohen of Stony Brook University writes:

The baptismal passage in the Cosmographiae Introductio has commonly been read as argument, in which the author said that he was naming the newly discovered continent in honor of Vespucci and saw no reason for objections. But, as etymologist Joy Rea has suggested, it could also be read as an explanation, in which he indicates that he has heard the New World was called America, and the only explanation lay in Vespucci’s name.^[23]

Among the reasons which proponents give in adopting this theory include the recognition of, in Cohen’s words, «the simple fact that place names usually originate informally in the spoken word and first circulate that way, not in the printed word».^[23][24] In addition, Waldseemüller not only is exonerated from the charge of having arrogated to himself the privilege of naming lands, which privilege was reserved to monarchs and explorers, but also is freed from the charge of violating the long-established and virtually inviolable ancient European tradition of using only the first name of royal individuals as opposed to the last name of commoners (such as Vespucci) in bestowing names to lands.^[22]

Richard Amerike[edit]

Bristol antiquarian Alfred Hudd suggested in 1908 that the name was derived from the surname «Amerike» or «ap Meryk» and was used on early British maps that have since been lost. Richard ap Meryk, anglicised to Richard Amerike (or Ameryk) (c. 1445–1503) was a wealthy Anglo-Welsh merchant, royal customs officer and sheriff of Bristol.^[25] According to some historians, he was the principal owner of the Matthew, the ship sailed by John Cabot during his voyage of exploration to North America in 1497.^[25] The idea that Richard Amerike was a ‘principal supporter’ of Cabot has gained popular currency in the 21st century.^[25] There is no known evidence to support this.^{[citation needed]} Similarly, and contrary to a recent tradition that names Amerike as principal owner and main funder of the Matthew, Cabot’s ship of 1497,^[25] academic enquiry does not connect Amerike with the ship. Her ownership at that date remains uncertain.^[26] Macdonald asserts that the caravel was specifically built for the Atlantic crossing.^[27]

Hudd proposed his theory in a paper which was read at the 21 May 1908 meeting of the Clifton Antiquarian Club, and which appeared in Volume 7 of the club’s Proceedings. In «Richard Ameryk and the name America,» Hudd discussed the 1497 discovery of North America by John Cabot, an Italian who had sailed on behalf of England. Upon his return to England after his first (1497) and second (1498–1499) voyages, Cabot received two pension payments from Henry VII. Of the two customs officials at the Port of Bristol who were responsible for delivering the money to Cabot, the more senior was Richard Ameryk (High Sheriff of Bristol in 1503).^[23][28] Hudd postulated that Cabot named the land that he had discovered after Ameryk, from whom he received the pension conferred by the king.^[29] He stated that Cabot had a reputation for being free with gifts to his friends, such that his expression of gratitude to the official would not be unexpected. Hudd also thought it unlikely that America would have been named after Vespucci’s given name rather than his family name. Hudd used a quote from a late 15th-century manuscript (a calendar of Bristol events), the original of which had been lost in an 1860 Bristol fire, that indicated the name America was already known in Bristol in 1497.^[23][30]

This year (1497), on St. John the Baptist’s day (June 24th), the land of America was found by the merchants of Bristow, in a ship of Bristowe called the ‘Mathew,’ the which said ship departed from the port of Bristowe the 2nd of May and came home again the 6th August following.^[30]

Hudd reasoned that the scholars of the 1507 Cosmographiae Introductio, unfamiliar with Richard Ameryk, assumed that the name America, which he claimed had been in use for ten years, was based on Amerigo Vespucci and, therefore, mistakenly transferred the honour from Ameryk to Vespucci.^[23][30] While Hudd’s speculation has found support from some authors, there is no strong evidence to substantiate his theory that Cabot named America after Richard Ameryk.^[23][25][31]

Moreover, because Amerike’s coat of arms was similar to the flag later adopted by the independent United States, a legend grew that the North American continent had been named for him rather than for Amerigo Vespucci.^[25] It is not widely accepted — the origin is usually attributed to the flag of the British East India Company.

Native naming of the continent[edit]

In 1977, the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (Consejo Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas) proposed using the term Abya Yala instead of «America» when referring to the continent. There are also names in other indigenous languages such as Ixachitlan and Runa Pacha. Some scholars have adopted the term as an objection to colonialism.^[32]

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• The Columbus Myth: Did Men of Bristol Reach America before Columbus? Ian Wilson (1974; reprint 1991: ISBN 0-671-71167-9)
• Terra Incognita: The True Story of How America Got Its Name, Rodney Broome (US 2001: ISBN 0-944638-22-8)
• Amerike: The Briton America Is Named After, Rodney Broome (UK 2002: ISBN 0-7509-2909-X)

External links[edit]

• «The man who inspired America?», BBC Features, 29 April 2002
• Jonathan Cohen, «It’s All in a Name», Bristol Times
• «Bristol Voyages», Heritage
• «Correcting One of History’s Mistakes…Maybe», Peninsula Pulse, 12 September 2013

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

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

Etymology[edit]

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;^[1][2] 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).^[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹ.ə.kə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹɪkə
• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): /əˈmɚ.ɪ.kə/, /əˈmɚ.ə.kə/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.keɪ/, /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kɔː/^[4]

Proper noun[edit]

America (plural Americas)

2. The Americas.

   • 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, →DOI, pages 235–262:

     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 …

   • 1890, Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 796:

     the Marsupials or pouched animals, being found throughout the continent of America, from the United States to Patagonia

   • 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’.

3. A female given name.
4. A town in Limburg, Netherlands.
6. (sometimes proscribed) The United States of America.

   • 1837, George Sand, Stanley Young, transl., Mauprat‎^[5], Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:

     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.

   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎^[6], 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.

   • 2014 July 27, “Nuclear Weapons”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 12, HBO:

     And once gain, America is saved from destruction by the heroes in “MEAL Team Six”.

   • 2022 April 3, Roisin Conaty & al., Big Fat Quiz of Everything, Channel 4:

     Captain America, how did he get his powers?
     I think he… he got bitten by America.

Usage notes[edit]

In English, the unqualified term «America» often refers to the United States of America as a synecdoche, with «American» typically referring to people and things from that country. The sense of «the Americas» varies in commonness between regions in contemporary English, but is found in certain circumstances, such as in reference to the Organization of American States.

Synonyms[edit]

• (North and South America) Americas
• (United States of America) see United States of America#Synonyms

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• (continents) continent; Africa, America (North America, South America), Antarctica, Asia, Europe, Oceania ^{(Category: en:Continents)}

References[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

First attested as Amerika in 1838-1857. Derived from New Latin America. The settlement was named for its remote location.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈmeː.ri.kaː/
• Hyphenation: Ame‧ri‧ca
• Homophone: Amerika

Proper noun[edit]

America n

1. A village in Horst aan de Maas, Limburg, Netherlands.

   Synonym: Turftreiersriek (Carnival nickname)

References[edit]

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From New Latin America.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /aˈmɛ.ri.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛrika
• Hyphenation: A‧mè‧ri‧ca

Proper noun[edit]

America f

1. (continent) the Americas

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• →⇒ Slavomolisano: Lamerika

Anagrams[edit]

• amicare, camerai, macaire, macerai, rameica

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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 (see Emmerich).

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]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈme.ri.ka/, [äˈmɛrɪkä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈme.ri.ka/, [äˈmɛːrikä]

Proper noun[edit]

America f sg (genitive Americae); first declension

1. (New Latin) America (the continent).

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun, singular only.

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

References[edit]

• America in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[7], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From New Latin America.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ameˈɾiko̞/

Proper noun[edit]

America f

1. America (the Americas)

Derived terms[edit]

• America del Nòrd
• America centrala
• America del Sud
• american

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin America.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [aˈme.ri.ka]

Proper noun[edit]

America f (plural Americi)

1. America

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

[edit]

• America Centrală
• America de Nord
• America de Sud
• american

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From New Latin America.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /aˈmɛrɪka/

Proper noun[edit]

America f

1. America

Derived terms[edit]

• America Ladin (“Latin America”)
• Americanaidd (“American”)
• Americanes (“American woman”)
• Americanwr (“American man”)
• Canolbarth America (“Central America”)
• De America (“South America”)
• Gogledd America (“North America”)
• Unol Daleithiau America (“United States of America”)

Mutation[edit]

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[edit]