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America

name
/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/

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 *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).

  1. derived from Mouric
  2. learned borrowing from America

Definitions

  1. A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded…

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

  2. A country in North America

    A country in North America; in full, United States of America.

    • America, fuck yeah! / Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah!

  3. A female given name.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A town in Limburg, Netherlands.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at America. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at america. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at america

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA