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Nanoo Nanoo
23rd September 2012, 20:06
Definition

" Ame " latin translation is : Love

" Rica " Spanish / italian translation is : Riches

Both are in the feminine.



and? . . . Nanoo? How can we gain anything from this?


i dont know for sure




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Strat
24th September 2012, 00:22
I'm sure the point is going over my head (been a looooooooooong weekend) but for the record "America" was coined after Amerigo Vespucci.



I frickin love your avatar by the way!
Bill Ryan
24th September 2012, 00:42
I'm sure the point is going over my head (been a looooooooooong weekend) but for the record "America" was coined after Amerigo Vespucci.


Yes, it was. From http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=america :





1507, in Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio," from Mod.L. Americanus, after Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) who made two trips to the New World as a navigator and claimed to have discovered it. His published works put forward the idea that it was a new continent, and he was first to call it Novus Mundus "New World." Amerigo is more easily Latinized than Vespucci.
Nanoo Nanoo
24th September 2012, 07:09
Nice info there, i bet itsa good read :-)

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Nanoo Nanoo
24th September 2012, 07:16
I'm sure the point is going over my head (been a looooooooooong weekend) but for the record "America" was coined after Amerigo Vespucci.



I frickin love your avatar by the way!

Thanks Strat Cat :-)

The liddle bull ant ( mexican accent ) he is hiu fren d.

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Nanoo Nanoo
26th September 2012, 22:07
I'm sure the point is going over my head (been a looooooooooong weekend) but for the record "America" was coined after Amerigo Vespucci.


Yes, it was. From http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=america :





1507, in Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio," from Mod.L. Americanus, after Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) who made two trips to the New World as a navigator and claimed to have discovered it. His published works put forward the idea that it was a new continent, and he was first to call it Novus Mundus "New World." Amerigo is more easily Latinized than Vespucci.



I couldnt imagine the usa being called Vespuccica, America is a good name.

What does the word America men to its inhbitants i wonder?

Any suggestions?

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