America

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

New Latin America, feminine latinized form of the Italian forename of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). Amerigo is an Italian name derived from the Germanic name Emmerich.

• IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹɪkə/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹɪkə

America (plural Americas)

1. The United States of America.
   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, 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, John Oliver, “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”.

2. The Americas.
   • 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.

In English, the unqualified term "America" typically refers to the United States of America, with "American" typically referring to people and things from that country. The sense of "the Americas" is uncommon in contemporary English, but is still found in some specific circumstances, such as in reference to the Organization of American States.

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

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

From New Latin America

America f

1. (continent) the Americas

• macaire
• macerai
• rameica

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.

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]

America f (genitive Americae); first declension

1. (New Latin) America

First declension.

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

Borrowed from Latin America.

• IPA^(key): [aˈme.ri.ka]

America f (plural Americi)

1. America

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