americana
Asturian
Catalan
Galician
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.me.riˈka.na/
- Rhymes: -ana
- Hyphenation: a‧me‧ri‧cà‧na
Noun
americana f (plural americane)
- female equivalent of americano: female American (female native or inhabitant of America, the Americas, or the United States)
- Synonym: statunitense
Latin
Pronunciation
- americāna: (Classical) IPA(key): /a.me.riˈkaː.na/, [ämɛrɪˈkäːnä]
- americāna: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.me.riˈka.na/, [ämeriˈkäːnä]
- americānā: (Classical) IPA(key): /a.me.riˈkaː.naː/, [ämɛrɪˈkäːnäː]
- americānā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.me.riˈka.na/, [ämeriˈkäːnä]
Adjective
americāna
- inflection of americānus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.me.ɾiˈkɐ̃.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.me.ɾiˈkɐ.na/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.mɨ.ɾiˈkɐ.nɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.mɨ.ɾiˈka.nɐ/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nɐ
- Hyphenation: a‧me‧ri‧ca‧na
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ameɾiˈkana/ [a.me.ɾiˈka.na]
- Rhymes: -ana
- Syllabification: a‧me‧ri‧ca‧na
Noun
americana f (plural americanas)
- female equivalent of americano
- (fashion) a cloth jacket with lapels and buttons, reaching below the hip
- 2020 April 1, “Pablo Iglesias comparece en un momento histórico y todos le trolean por lo mismo”, in Mundo Deportivo:
- El momento era solemne, su rictus muy serio... pero la gente lo que más comentó en redes fue otra cosa: ¡Que la americana le quedaba grande! Sí, sí. Tal cual.
- It was a solemn moment, his wince was very serious... but the people that commented most on social networks were the opposite: Damn, that americana fits you amazingly! Yep. Just like that.
Further reading
- “americano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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