America

America (-ae, f.)^[1]^[2] est terra continens^[1] seu supercontinens quae Americam Septentrionalem et Americam Australem complectitur, Media America non excepta. Plurimas terrae partes in Hemisphaerio Occidentali constituunt,^[3]^[4] et Novum Mundum una continent. Continens finitima est Asia.

America, cum eius insulis consociatis, circa 8 centesimas superficiei telluris (42 262 142 chiliometra²) et 28.4 centesimas eius terrae continet. Topographia notatur per Cordilleram Americanum, longam montium catenam, quae per omne litus occidentale extenditur. Orientale autem Americae latus, humilius et planius, magnis pelvibus fluviatilibus bene describitur, inter quorum regiones sunt pelves Amazoniae, Fluminis Sancti Laurentii, Lacuum Magnorum, Fluminis Mississippiensis, et Fluminis Platensis. Quia omnis America a septentrionibus ad australem 14 000 fere chiliometra extenditur, clima et oecologia latissime variant, ab arctica Canadae Septentrionalis, Groenlandiae, Alascaeque tundra ad silvas pluviales tropicas quae in Media America et America Australi patent.

Indicia supercontinentis

Numerus incolarum: 870 000 000 (450 000 000 in America Septentrionali, 420 000 000 in America Australi)
Fluvius longissimus: Amazonum flumen
Mons maximus: Aconcagua Argentinae
Civitas numero hominum maxima: Civitates Foederatae (25% continentis)
Deserta maxima: Moiavia et Atacama

Civitates

Territoria

Linguae Europeae in America late auditae

Pecunia

Nexus interni

Notae

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Amerika, n.: America, ae, f [LEA p.75; KLW p.104,1], terra continens. Amerikanisch: Americanus, a, um [LEA p.75; KLW p.104,1; SYS: Styrax americanus]": Petrus Lucusaltianus, Lexicon Latinum hodiernum
↑ McArthur 1992:33: "16c: from the feminine of Americus, the Latinized first name of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). The name America first appeared on a map in 1507 by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, referring to the area now called Brazil. Since the 16c, a name of the western hemisphere, often in the plural Americas."
↑ "Western Hemisphere," Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, ed. 3a (Springfield Massachusettae: Merriam-Webster, 2001), 1294: "The part of the Earth comprising North and South America and surrounding waters; longitudes 20°W and 160°E are often considered its boundaries."
↑ Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, United States Department of State.

Bibliographia

Opera antiquiora

Theodoro de Bry et al., America. Opus fasciculis quattuordecim editum, 1590-1644 (Latine)
Ioannes de Laet, Novus orbis, seu descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis libri XVIII ... novis tabulis geographicis et variis animantium, plantarum fructuumque iconibus illustrata. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Elzevirios, 1633 (Latine)

Opera recentiora

Carroué, Laurent, DidierCollet, et Claude Ruiz. 2008. Les Amériques. Rosny-sous-Bois: Bréal. ISBN 9782749505305.
Chaunu, Pierre. 1964. L'Amérique et les Amériques Destins du monde. Armand Colin.
Fee, Marjorie, et Janice MacAlpine. 2008 Oxford Guide to Canadian English Usage.
Harlfinger, Dieter, ed. 1992. Die Wiedergeburt der Antike und die Auffindung Amerikas: 2000 Jahre Wegbereitung einer Entdeckung: Bildkatalog zur Ausstellung. Wiesbaden: Reichert. ISBN 3882265647.
Knefelkamp, Ulrich, et Hans-Joachim König, eds. 1988. Die neuen Welten in alten Büchern: Entdeckung und Eroberung in frühen deutschen Schrift- und Bildzeugnissen: Ausstellung in der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. ISBN 3924530033.
Mahlke, Kirsten. 2005. Offenbarung im Westen: Frühe Berichte aus der Neuen Welt. Francofurti: Fischer TB. ISBN 3596162351.
Mann, Charles C. 2007. 1491: Nouvelles révélations sur les Amériques avant Christophe Colomb. Convertit Marina Boraso. Éditions Albin Michel. Albin Michel. ISBN 9782226175922.
McArthur, Tom, ed. 1992. America. The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019214183X.
Musset, Alain, Vincent Thébault, et al., eds. 2009. Géopolitique des Amériques. Nouveaux continents. Ed. 2a. Lutetiae: Nathan. ISBN 9782091608952. OCLC 470627761.
O'Neal, Mary. 2011. The Chambers Dictionary. Ed. 12a. Londinii: Chambers Harrap Publishers. ISBN 9780550102379.
Reinhard, Wolfgang, et Peter Waldmann, eds. 1992. Nord und Süd in Amerika: Gemeinsamkeiten, Gegensätze, europäischer Hintergrund. Series historica, 1. Freiburg: Rombach. ISBN 3793090809.
Stevenson, Angus, et Christine Lindberg. 2010. New Oxford American Dictionary. Ed. 3a. Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press.
Wawrik, Franz. 2003. Die Darstellung Amerikas in den Kosmographien des 16. Jahrhunderts. Cartographica Helvetica 28: 33–41.
Zweig, Stephan. 1941. Amerigo, Die Geschichte eines historischen Irrtums.

Aliae encyclopaediae

"America", "America Septentrionalis quae et Mexicana", "America Meridionalis quae et Peruviana" in Iohannes Iacobus Hofmannus, Lexicon universale (1698) ~ (Latine)

Regiones, civitates et territoria Americae

Regiones	America Septentrionalis · Media America · Insulae Caribicae · America Australis
Civitates	Aequatoria · Antiqua et Barbuda · Argentina · Bahamenses insulae · Barbata · Beliza · Bolivia · Brasilia · Canada · Chilia · Civitates Foederatae Americae · Columbia · Costarica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominicana res publica · Granata · Guatimalia · Guiana · Haitia · Honduria · Iamaica · Mexicum · Nicaragua · Panama · Paraquaria · Peruvia · Salvatoria · Sancta Lucia · Sanctus Christophorus et Nevis · Sanctus Vincentius et Granatinae · Surinamia · Trinitas et Tabacum · Uraquaria · Venetiola
Territoria	Anguilla · Aruba · Boni Aëris insula · Caimanenses insulae · Curacensis insula · Falklandia · Groenlandia · Guadalupa · Guiana Francica · Martinica · Montserrat · Portus Dives · Saba · Sanctus Bartholomaeus · Sanctus Martinus · Statia · Turcenses et Caicenses insulae · Virginis Insulae Americanae · Virginis Insulae Britannicae

Opus geopoliticum • Nationes mundi • America

Capsae cognatae: Africa • Asia • Europa • Oceania

Continentes

Africa · America · Antarctica · Asia · Europa · Oceania

Opus geopoliticum • Continens

Capsae cognatae: Civitates Africae • Americae • Asiae • Europae • Oceaniae

[LLH-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Amerika, n.: America, ae, f [LEA p.75; KLW p.104,1], terra continens. Amerikanisch: Americanus, a, um [LEA p.75; KLW p.104,1; SYS: Styrax americanus]": Petrus Lucusaltianus, Lexicon Latinum hodiernum

[oxfordc-2] McArthur 1992:33: "16c: from the feminine of Americus, the Latinized first name of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). The name America first appeared on a map in 1507 by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, referring to the area now called Brazil. Since the 16c, a name of the western hemisphere, often in the plural Americas."

[mwgeodict-3] "Western Hemisphere," Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, ed. 3a (Springfield Massachusettae: Merriam-Webster, 2001), 1294: "The part of the Earth comprising North and South America and surrounding waters; longitudes 20°W and 160°E are often considered its boundaries."

[4] Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, United States Department of State.

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