americano

• Americano

1970s, from Italian (caffè) americano^[1] or American Spanish americano (“American (coffee)”).^[2] Cocktail sense from Italian americano.

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americano (countable and uncountable, plural americanos)

1. A drink made of espresso coffee diluted with hot water.

   Synonyms: cafe americano, caffè americano, coffee americano

   • 2017, Ronald H. Balson, The Trust, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 16:

     “No, the coffee. Do you want a cup of Americano?” I groaned. Welcome to Europe. “Can't I just get a cup of regular coffee? A little cream, a little sugar?” […] “An Americano is a shot of espresso with hot water added.” “I don't know why they call it Americano. No one in America drinks espresso and hot water.”

   • 2018, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White, “Chapter 4: Sarah”, in The Glass Ocean, William Morrow, →ISBN:

     And he drank americano. That was interesting. Was he lactose intolerant or did he simply prefer his coffee black?

2. A cocktail made with Campari, sweet vermouth, and club soda.
   • 1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, page 30:

     The waiters wore striped waistcoats and green baize aprons. Bond ordered an Americano and examined the sprinkling of overdressed customers, mostly from Paris he guessed, who sat talking with focus and vivacity, creating that theatrically clubbable atmosphere of l'heure de l'aperitif.

   • 2009, Eric Felten, How's Your Drink?: Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well, Agate Publishing, →ISBN, pages 37–38:

     An Americano is made of Campari, sweet vermouth, and soda water over ice in a highball glass. […] The drink was so popular among Americans visiting Italy at the turn of the last century that it was named after them.

• Canadiano

• → Finnish: americano
• → Indonesian: amerikano
• → Lao: ອະເມຣິກາໂນ (ʼa mē ri kā nō), ອາເມລິກາໂນ (ʼā mē li kā nō)
• → Macedonian: американо (amerikano)
• → Northern Thai: ᩋᩡᨾᩮᩁᩥᨠᩣᨶᩰ
• → Polish: americano
• → Russian: америка́но (amerikáno)
• → Spanish: americano
• → Thai: อะเมริกาโน
• → Ukrainian: америка́но (amerykáno)

• Caffè Americano on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Americano (cocktail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Cainamero, acremonia

americano

1. neuter of americanu

From English americano, from Italian americano and/or Spanish americano.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmerikɑ(ː)no/, [ˈɑ̝me̞ˌrikɑ̝(ː)no̞]
• Rhymes: -ikɑno

americano

1. americano, caffè americano (drink made of espresso coffee diluted with hot water)

From América +‎ -ano.

• IPA^(key): /amɛɾiˈkano/ [a.mɛ.ɾiˈkɑ.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: a‧me‧ri‧ca‧no

americano (feminine americana, masculine plural americanos, feminine plural americanas)

1. American (of the Americas)

   Synonym: indiano

2. American (of the United States of America)

   Synonym: estadounidense

americano m (plural americanos, feminine americana, feminine plural americanas)

1. American (native of the Americas)

   Synonym: indiano

2. local who has come back from the Americas, frequently with a sizeable capital

   Synonym: indiano

   • 1885, Lisardo Rodríguez Barreiro, Unha visita a Rosalía de Castro:

     dixei o engoumado vello de monteira e calzón de boca de cadela, o americano de ponche e pariaguas cun puño de óso...

     I passed by the shrunken old man of monteira and old fashioned pants, the American with punch and umbrella with bone handle...

3. American (native or citizen of the United States of America)

   Synonym: estadounidense

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “americano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “americano”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “americano”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From America +‎ -ano.

• IPA^(key): /a.me.riˈka.no/

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• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: a‧me‧ri‧cà‧no

americano (feminine americana, masculine plural americani, feminine plural americane)

1. American, United Statesian, US-American, Yankee

americano m (plural americani, feminine americana)

1. American (native or inhabitant of America, the Americas, or the United States) (usually male)

   Synonym: statunitense (referring to the United States)

• anomerica, careniamo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.mɛ.rɪˈkaː.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.me.riˈkaː.no]

americānō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of americānus

• IPA^(key): /ameriˈkanə/

americano (feminine singular americana, plural americane)

1. American

americano m (plural americane, feminine singular americana, feminine plural americane)

1. American (inhabitant or native of Americas or of the United States)

   Synonym: stataunitense

From América +‎ -ano.

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• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnu, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nu
• Hyphenation: a‧me‧ri‧ca‧no

americano (feminine americana, masculine plural americanos, feminine plural americanas, not comparable)

1. American (of the United States of America)

   Synonym: (Brazil) estado-unidense

2. American (of the Americas)
3. relative to any of the indigenous languages spoken in the American continent
4. (Portugal, viticulture) relative to a variety of grape originating from America or its cultivars

   Synonym: morangueiro

5. (Portugal, oenology) relative to a wine made from said grapes

   Synonym: morangueiro

americano m (plural americanos, feminine americana, feminine plural americanas)

1. American (native of the Americas)
2. American (native or citizen of the United States of America)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) estado-unidense, norte-americano

3. (Portugal, obsolete) horsecar
   • 1888, Eça de Queirós, chapter XVIII, in Os Maias, page 716:

     — Espera! — exclamou Ega. — Lá vem um americano, ainda o apanhamos.

     — Wait! — exclaimed Ega. — There comes a horsecar, we can still catch it.

4. caffè americano
5. any of the indigenous languages spoken in the American continent
6. (Brazil) a type of hot sandwich made from sandwich bread, filled with prosciutto, cheese, a fried egg, butter, lettuce and tomato
7. (Portugal, viticulture) a variety of grape originating from America or its cultivars

   Synonym: morangueiro

8. (Portugal, oenology) a wine made from said grapes

   Synonym: morangueiro

• “americano”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “americano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “americano”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

From América +‎ -ano.

• IPA^(key): /ameɾiˈkano/ [a.me.ɾiˈka.no]

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• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: a‧me‧ri‧ca‧no

americano (feminine americana, masculine plural americanos, feminine plural americanas)

1. American (of, from or relating to the Americas)

   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.

2. (proscribed) American, US-American (of, from or relating to the United States)

americano m (plural americanos, feminine americana, feminine plural americanas)

1. (common) American (native or inhabitant of the Americas) (usually male)
   • 1971, Eduardo Galeano, “Introducción”, in Las venas abiertas de América Latina:

     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.

2. (proscribed) American, US-American (native or inhabitant of the United States) (usually male)

   Synonym: estadounidense

3. (historical, rare) someone who became rich in the Americas and returned to his country

   Synonym: (more common) indiano

4. (Philippines, historical, obsolete) person born and/or raised in Spanish America who immigrated or visited the Spanish Colonial Philippines or Spanish East Indies in general

   Synonym: criollo

   Coordinate terms: peninsular, insular, filipino, filipina

• → Navajo: bilagáana
  • → Hopi: Pölakaana
• → Tagalog: Amerikano, Kano
• → Cebuano: Amerikano

• “americano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024