Amerige

Latin Etymology la Martin Waldseemüller German cartographers and la Matthias Ringmann 1507 1 in their Cosmographiae Introductio, from a la Amerī̆cus grc:γῆ Amerigo earth, land Land of Amerigo 1.en 1904 October w:Edward Gaylord Bourne The Naming of America w:The American Historical Review 10 1 49 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1833813 Amerige is made up of Ameri(ci) and ge, the Greek γῆ, land. Pronunciation Amerī̆gē Proper noun Amerī̆gē<1> la Renaissance Latin hapax legomenon la America Q828 la 1507 w:Martin Waldseemüller w:Matthias Ringmann w:Cosmographiae Introductio IX 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. Declension Amerī̆gē<1> * This word is only attested in the accusative singular form Amerī̆gēn; thus, the rest of the forms shown above are hypothetical. References