americano — Spanish Dictionary

adjective/ameɾiˈkano/

American (of, from or relating to the Americas); American, US-American (of, from or relating to the United States)

“Los pueblos americanos de hoy en día en su mayoría son descendientes de los colonos ibéricos.” — The American people of today are mostly descendants of Iberian settlers.

Synonyms: estadounidense

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Germanic *amalą Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder. Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz ▲ Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.? Italian Amerigoder. New Latin Americabor. Spanish América Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Ital

noun, masculine/ameɾiˈkano/plural: americanos

American (native or inhabitant of the Americas) (usually male); American, US-American (native or inhabitant of the United States) (usually male); someone who became rich in the Americas and returned to his country; person born and/or raised in Spanish America who immigrated or visited the Spanish Colonial Philippines or Spanish East Indies in general

“Por el camino hasta perdimos derecho de llamarnos americanos, aunque los haitianos y los cubanos ya habían asomado a la historia, como pueblos nuevos, un siglo antes de que los peregrinos del Mayflower se establecieran en las costas de Plymouth.” — Along the way we even lost the right to call ourselves Americans, although Haitians and Cubans had already entered history, as new peoples, a century before the Mayflower pilgrims settled on the shores of Plymouth.

Synonyms: estadounidense, indiano, criollo