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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)

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’.
A female given name.
A town in Limburg, Netherlands.
(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]

Central America
Jewmerica
‘Murica
North America
South America
United States of America
Young America

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^ Merriam-Webster Online, Mapping Out the Naming of ‘America’
^ “Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes.”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎^[1], accessed September 8, 2014; Martin Waldseemüller (accessed April 18, 2014), “Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎^[2], Washington, DC: Library of Congress
^ The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. (2016). United Kingdom: OUP Oxford, p. 1881
^ Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎^[3], volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 49.

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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

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

Synonym: Turftreiersriek (Carnival nickname)

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

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From New Latin America.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Proper noun[edit]

America f

(continent) the Americas

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Descendants[edit]

→⇒ Slavomolisano: Lamerika

Anagrams[edit]

amicare, camerai, macaire, macerai, rameica

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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

(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

^ John R. Hebert, «The Map That Named America: Library Acquires 1507 Waldseemüller Map of the World» ([4]), Information Bulletin, Library of Congress
^ Toby Lester, «Putting America on the Map», Smithsonian, 40:9 (December 2009)

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From New Latin America.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ameˈɾiko̞/

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America f

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]

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America f (plural Americi)

America

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America Centrală
America de Nord
America de Sud
american

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From New Latin America.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /aˈmɛrɪka/

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America f

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”)

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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.

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Published October 13, 2013

American place names can sound pretty confusing even to native English speakers. From Philadelphia (Greek for “loving brother”) to Chicago (Algonquian Fox for “place of the wild onion”), the map of America is an etymological hodge-podge. For a clear example, take three adjacent states in New England. Vermont is an inverted, rough translation of the French for “green mountain,” mont vert. Massachusetts is derived from the name of the Native American people who lived in the area, the Algonquian Massachusett. The word meant “at the large hill.” New Hampshire comes from a county in southern England. And why do we call a turkey turkey? Learn about the history of nation’s favorite bird, the turkey, here.

But what about America itself?

Why aren’t the continents of North and South America called “Columbusia” after Christopher Columbus? The word America comes from a lesser-known navigator and explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. Who made the decision? A cartographer.

Like Columbus, Vespucci traveled to the New World (first in 1499 and again in 1502). Unlike Columbus, Vespucci wrote about it. Vespucci’s accounts of his travels were published between 1502 and 1504 and were widely read in Europe. Columbus was also hindered because he thought he had discovered another route to Asia; he didn’t realize America was a whole new continent. Vespucci, however, realized that America was not contiguous with Asia. He was also the first to call it the New World, or Novus Mundus in Latin.

With the discovery of this “New World,” maps were being redrawn all the time. No one really knew what land was where or how big it was. Because of this confusion, maps from the 1500s are incredibly inaccurate and contradictory. (They also often feature drawings of mythical sea creatures.)

From Amerigo to America

In 1507, a German cartographer named Martin Waldseemüller was drawing a map of the world—a very serious map. He called it the Universalis Cosmographia, or Universal Cosmography. Comprised of 12 wooden panels, it was eight feet wide and four-and-a-half feet tall. He based his drawings of the New World on Vespucci’s published travelogues. 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.

Today, an original of Waldseemüller’s map is permanently on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

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Today I found out how the Americas got their name.

Like most, I’ve known that the Americas were named after Amerigo Vespucci since my early education. However, the story behind why this is the case is somewhat more interesting and quite a bit less well known. Vespucci was a navigator that traveled to “the new world” in 1499 and 1502. Being a well educated man, he realized that this new world was not part of Asia, as some had initially thought. Vespucci chose to write about his travels and his books were published in 1502 and 1504. Being both entertaining and educational, his accounts of the new world were reprinted in almost every European language.

In 1507, a German cartographer, Martin Waldseemüller, chose to make a new map that included the new world. He and two scholarly partners were aware of Vespucci’s writings and were ignorant of Columbus’s expeditions. As such, they mistakenly thought Vespucci was the first to discover this new land and so named it after him, stating:

But now these parts (Europe, Asia and Africa, the three continents of the Ptolemaic geography) have been extensively explored and a fourth part has been discovered by Americus Vespuccius (the Latin form of Vespucci’s name), I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part after Americus, who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, and so to name it Amerige, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women.

When the large new map, approximately 8 feet by 4 feet, was unveiled by Waldseemüller, it had the large title “AMERICA” across what is now present day Brazil. Waldseemüller used Vespucci’s travelogues as a reference for his drawing and so his map had South America as the only part of this new western hemisphere. When North America was later added, the mapmakers of the time retained the original name. In 1538, The famous geographer Gerard Mercator chose to name the entire north and south parts of America as one large “America” for the entire western hemisphere.

Christopher Columbus might well have had the new world named after him, had it not been for two shortcomings. The first was that Columbus was under the mistaken impression that he had found a new route to Asia and was not aware that America was an entirely new continent. The second was that he never wrote publicly about it so the masses were not aware of his discovery. Had he done this, Mr. Waldseemüller and his colleagues might have named it Columba! As it happened, Vespucci did write about it and was the first to call this land the “Novus Mundus” (Latin for “New World”).

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Waldseemüller’s 1507 map was lost to scholars from 1538-1901 when it was discovered inside a German castle. Once found, it was recognized as the earliest map to record the use of the name “America”. Today, that map is on permanent display in the Library of Congress. They purchased it in 2001 for $10 million.
Christopher Columbus and Vespucci were actually good friends. Vespucci was sent to Spain in 1490 by his employers to help in their business venture of fitting out new ships. In that role, he became involved in fitting out Columbus’s fleet for his second voyage and Columbus later wrote the he trusted Vespucci and held him in very high esteem.
Vespucci was also credited for inventing a system of computing longitude. This system was so accurate that he was able to calculate the circumference of the earth, at the equator, to within 50 miles of the actual measurement.
Vespucci was born in March 9, 1454 in Florence. He was baptized, “Amerigho”, named after his grandfather. Remarkable to think that when his parents were picking a name for this baby, they were also picking a name for the Americas. He died February 22, 1512.
Vespucci is thought to have taken four voyages to the new world. His first voyage from 1497-98 has been called in to question, and many scholars believe it might not have taken place. However, there is significant evidence that his second and third voyages in 1499-1500, and 1501-1502 actually took place. It is believed that he might have taken another voyage to the Americas in 1503-04.
Vespucci’s writings, while scholarly, also entertained the masses by his descriptions of the new world. For instance, he wrote in one of his letters about the natives of the land how they would have sex with anybody, including “Mom”.
The first people to inhabit the western hemisphere did so approximately 19,000-23,000 years ago. Mitochondrial evidence shows that all Native Americans come from a single population group around the time of the last ice age, during what is known as “the last glacial maximum”, probably having migrated over from Asia. Over the next 5-8 thousand years there was a large population boom. DNA evidence suggests that this population spread quickly throughout all of the America’s via a Pacific Coast route.
In 1508, Vespucci was appointed “Chief Navigator” also known as “Pilot Major” for Spain. He was in charge of examining and licensing all Spanish ships and voyages. He also made the official maps of the newly discovered lands and the routes that future captains were obliged to take. He maintained this title of distinction until he died.

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The name America was coined by Martin Waldseemüller from Americus Vespucius, the Latinized version of the name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), the Italian explorer who mapped South America’s east coast and the Caribbean Sea in the early 16th century. read more

American is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World (also called the Americas). In some expressions, it retains this Pan-American sense, but its usage has evolved over time and, for various historical reasons, the word came to denote people or things specifically from the United States of America. read more

How America Got Its Name The Story of How America Got Its Name. It is an irony of history that the name «America» did not come from Christopher Columbus. That distinction belongs to a German writer of geography. read more

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I think quite a few of us were pondering on where the word «America» could come from. I knew about the Amerigo Vespucci version, but I had no idea that this narrative was set in stone. Here is what we have for the official version:

The name America was coined by Martin Waldseemüller from Americus Vespucius, the Latinized version of the name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), the Italian explorer who mapped South America’s east coast and the Caribbean Sea in the early 16th century. Later, Vespucci’s published letters were the basis of Waldseemüller’s 1507 map, which is the first usage of America. The adjective American subsequently denoted the New World.

16th-century European usage of American denoted the native inhabitants of the New World. The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket’s 1568 translation of André Thévet’s book France Antarctique; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques. In the following century, the term was extended to European settlers and their descendants in the Americas. The earliest recorded use of «English-American» dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage’s The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new survey of the West India’s.

The official narrative leaves no other possibilities, but why the honors? Could this guy really map South America’s east coast and the Caribbean Sea in the early 16th century? Where did his cartography related education could come from? Here is what we have for his schooling and such:

Amerigo Vespucci was educated by his uncle, Fra Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican friar of the monastery of San Marco in Florence. While his elder brothers were sent to the University of Pisa to pursue scholarly careers, Amerigo Vespucci embraced a mercantile life, and was hired as a clerk by the Florentine commercial house of Medici, headed by Lorenzo de’ Medici. Vespucci acquired the favor and protection of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, who became the head of the business after the elder Lorenzo’s death in 1492. In March 1492, the Medici dispatched the thirty-eight-year-old Vespucci and Donato Niccolini as confidential agents to look into the Medici branch office in Cádiz (Spain), whose managers and dealings were under suspicion.
In April 1495, by the intrigues of Bishop Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca, the Crown of Castile broke their monopoly deal with Christopher Columbus and began handing out licenses to other navigators for the West Indies. Just around this time (1495–96), Vespucci was engaged as the executor of Giannotto Berardi, an Italian merchant who had recently died in Seville. Vespucci organized the fulfillment of Berardi’s outstanding contract with the Castilian crown to provide twelve vessels for the Indies. After these were delivered, Vespucci continued as a provision contractor for Indies expeditions, and is known to have secured beef supplies for at least one (if not two) of Columbus’ voyages.

I find it hard to believe that just like that, HUMONGOUS honors of having two continents named after him, were awarded to some semi-merchant individual. At the times, when other discoverers were paying respect to their Kings and Queens by naming tiny islands in their honor, this Americus Vesputius gets the entire New World named after him. It makes very little sense. A King of Spain, would probably execute a few people for such audacity and impudence.

What’s the true meaning of this two words — Americus Vesputius? Is this even a name? My speculative guess would be that the New World was called America long before 1492. Essentially the old name remained, and this Amerigo Vespucci legend was born.

Then we have Google Books Ngram Viewer telling us that the earliest pub is dated with 1609. Most are from the 18th century. Why not earlier than that. Here is a little cutout from that 1609 book.

Americus Vesputius inuenit terram occidentalem à fé appellatam Americam.
Google Translated — Americu be found from the western land called America — a better translation, anyone?
A. 5501m. 1469 eu. — what’s that supposed to mean?

Per the PTB: Anno Mundi

Year 2020 = Anno Mundi 5781
Year 1492 = Anno Mundi 5253
Year 1469 = Anno Mundi 5230 — Vespucci
Year 1464 = Anno Mundi 5225 — Columbus
- A. 5496 m. 1464 eu. — when Columbus traveled to West Indies, per the same book.

Basically, if A. 5501 m. means Anno Mundi, today (in 2020) it should be year AM 6052, and not AM 5781.

Looks like it’s important to figure out what A. # m., and eu. mean.
As it stands, we have 271 years between A. # m . and AM. Why?

There are plenty of names (in this book) to cross reference the dates from. Here are two of those:

Pope Gregory XIII
Sixtus V

KD: Anyways, if you have any thoughts on the etymology of the word «America» and the date of 1464 — please share.

Then we have Google Books Ngram Viewer telling us that the earliest pub is dated with 1609. Most are from the 18th century. Why not earlier than that. Here is a little cutout from that 1609 book.

Americus Vesputius inuenit terram occidentalem à fé appellatam Americam.

Google Translated — Americu be found from the western land called America — a better translation, anyone?

A. 5501m. 1469 eu. — what’s that supposed to mean?

The explanation is given in one of the first pages (Emendatio Temporum, compendio facta ab initio mundi ad præsens usque. Qua, præter alia plurima, restituta sunt Nativitas et Baptisma et Cruciatus … Christi ad annos fere quaternos post vulgi calculos).

eu =Evangelij (praedicati) … from the beginning of the ministry of Jesus

This means that if we do 5501 — 1469, we obtain the date in which the count of time for this dating method begins in Anno Mundi dating, which is 4032 AM.

So the year 1 is 4033 AM (Emendatio Temporum, compendio facta ab initio mundi ad præsens usque. Qua, præter alia plurima, restituta sunt Nativitas et Baptisma et Cruciatus … Christi ad annos fere quaternos post vulgi calculos) and I have the feeling that this is an interesting book. I don’t read Latin but with a lot concentration and a vocabulary I could try to decipher it (a great task though). Nonetheless on the previous page is stated that 4032 AM was also (I think) the 201th Olympiad, year 77 from the beginning of Caesar’s Empire (I think) and year 15 of Tiberius reign. After that there are interesting calculations on how they came up with their chronology.
According to this timeline (if I read correctly) Jesus was born on 4007 AM (Emendatio Temporum, compendio facta ab initio mundi ad præsens usque. Qua, præter alia plurima, restituta sunt Nativitas et Baptisma et Cruciatus … Christi ad annos fere quaternos post vulgi calculos).

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Thank you very much for researching this. I have never heard about this EU calendar. Sounds like the PTB played with quite a few calendars while adjusting the narrative.

According to the Byzanitine calendar, Jesus was born in 5508 AM. That roughly gives us 1500 years in between these two timelines. That’s an interesting number.

An Italian researcher, Riccardo Magnani, claims that the name America derives from Saint Emeric (Hungarian: Szent Imre herceg, Slovak: Svätý Imrich) also Henricus, Emery, Emerick, Emmerich, Emericus or Americus (c. 1007 – 2 September 1031), son of King St. Stephen I of Hungary (Saint Emeric of Hungary — Wikipedia). In this wiki article it is even stated that «It is believed by some Hungarians that Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer and the namesake of the Americas, was named after the saint.», although I cannot open the link to this information.
Anyway the Hungarian «Imre Herceg» translates as «Prince Imre» and more in general the name should derive from the Germanic name Haimirick or Heimirich. Maybe the etymology can give a clue.

Interesting story. For me (in Ukraine), the link of the book does not show and in the book name «Americus Vesputius» can’t be found on a search, either.

Interesting story. For me (in Ukraine), the link of the book does not show and in the book name «Americus Vesputius» can’t be found on a search, either.

This is what you should be able to see.

This is what you should be able to see.

Forgive my poor command of the English language. What I mean to say is that if we follow one of your links above we don’t end up seeing the book you’re talking about.

And to reiterate, to find in this book «Americus Vesputius» is also impossible. Miracles. So thanks for the link to the book itself.

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Well, that’s probably some google geographical algorithm adjusting search results. Otherwise I do not know why this could be happening.

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But what about America itself?

From Amerigo to America

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