Americus vespucius
Amerigo
[uh-mer-i-goh;; Italian ah-me-ree-gaw] /əˈmɛr ɪˌgoʊ;; Italian ˌɑ mɛˈri gɔ/ (Show IPA), (Americus Vespucius) 1451–1512, Italian merchant, adventurer, and explorer after whom America was named.
Historical Examples
A few of them had seen the vessels of americus vespucius and Cabral.
Martin Rattler R.M. Ballantyne
Do you think that americus vespucius deserved so great an honor?
Introductory American History Henry Eldridge Bourne
noun
Amerigo (ameˈriːɡo), Latin name Americus Vespucius. ?1454–1512, Florentine navigator in the New World (1499–1500; 1501–02), after whom the continent of America was named
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