americanus
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Amerī̆ca + -ānus (“-an”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.me.riˈka.nus/, [ämeriˈkäːnus]
Adjective[edit]
amerī̆canus (feminine amerī̆cana, neuter amerī̆canum); first/second-declension adjective
- (New Latin) American; of or pertaining to America (i.e. the Americas)
- 1723, Gervas Ludovicus Nicolaus de Oskierka, Theses ex universa philosophia quas ad majorem Dei gloriam & magnae Dei Matris Virginis Mariae honorem praeside R. P. Marquardo Rotenhan Societ. Jesu, Heidelberga (Heidelberg), section Continuatio globi terra quei in suas partes divisi, p.13:
- America in ſeptentrionalem, Auſtralem & Insulas Americanas diſtribuitur.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1723, Gervas Ludovicus Nicolaus de Oskierka, Theses ex universa philosophia quas ad majorem Dei gloriam & magnae Dei Matris Virginis Mariae honorem praeside R. P. Marquardo Rotenhan Societ. Jesu, Heidelberga (Heidelberg), section Continuatio globi terra quei in suas partes divisi, p.13:
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | amerī̆cānus | amerī̆cāna | amerī̆cānum | amerī̆cānī | amerī̆cānae | amerī̆cāna | |
| Genitive | amerī̆cānī | amerī̆cānae | amerī̆cānī | amerī̆cānōrum | amerī̆cānārum | amerī̆cānōrum | |
| Dative | amerī̆cānō | amerī̆cānō | amerī̆cānīs | ||||
| Accusative | amerī̆cānum | amerī̆cānam | amerī̆cānum | amerī̆cānōs | amerī̆cānās | amerī̆cāna | |
| Ablative | amerī̆cānō | amerī̆cānā | amerī̆cānō | amerī̆cānīs | |||
| Vocative | amerī̆cāne | amerī̆cāna | amerī̆cānum | amerī̆cānī | amerī̆cānae | amerī̆cāna | |