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アメリカ
アメリカ
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America, U.S.A.
Amerika is from English America, a Latinization of the given name of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512).
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Borrowed from English America, from New Latin America, feminine form of Americus, a Latinization of the given name of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), an Italian explorer.”
Source: Wiktionary: アメリカ (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.