Americus

Learned borrowing from Latin Americus.

• IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kʊs/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹ.ə.kʊs/, /əˈmɛɹ.kʊs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹɪkʊs

Americus

1. A city, the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States.
2. A census-designated place in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States.
3. A small city in Lyon County, Kansas, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Missouri, United States.
5. A male given name.

• Mauceris

Latinization of Italian Amerigo.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.mɛˈriː.kʊs], [aˈmɛ.rɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.meˈriː.kus], [aˈmɛː.ri.kus]

Amerī̆cus m sg (genitive Amerī̆cī); second declension

1. (Renaissance Latin) a male given name from Italian, equivalent to Italian Amerigo
   • 1507, Martin Waldseemüller, Matthias Ringmann, chapter IX, in Cosmographiae Introductio, page 30:

     Nunc vero et hae partes sunt latius lustratae et alia quarta pars per Americum Vesputium (ut in sequentibus audietur) inventa est, quam non video cur quis jure vetet ab Americo inventore, sagacis ingenii viro Amerigen quasi Americi terram, sive Americam dicendam: cum et Europa et Asia a mulieribus sua sortita sint nomina.

     Now, indeed, as these regions are more widely explored, and another fourth part has been discovered by Americus Vesputius, as may be learned from the following letters, I do not see why any one may justly forbid it to be named Amerige—that is, Americ’s land, from Americus, the discoverer, a man of sagacious mind, or America, since both Europe and Asia derived their names from women.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Amerī̆ca
• Amerī̆gē