autostrada

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

autostrada (plural autostradas or autostrade)

1. A motorway in Italy (and some other countries)
   • 1977, America’s Highways, 1776-1976: A History of the Federal-Aid Program, page 117, column 1:

     Chief MacDonald also warned of another threat to free highways in the possible resurgence of the private toll road, for which the Italian autostrade were the current models.

   • 1994, Nicole Franchini, Karen Brown, Karen Brown’s Italian Country Bed and Breakfasts, Travel Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Tolls on Italian autostrade are quite steep, ranging from $15 to $20 for a three-hour stretch, but offering the fastest and most direct way to travel between cities.

   • 2001, Yvonne D’Amico, Victor D’Amico, Sharing a Lifetime Passion for Europe, Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 209:

     Italian autostrade are even more impressive than German autobahns because constructing a road in Italy is so much more challenging.

   • 2018, D. Medina Lasansky, Hidden Histories: The Alternative Guide to Florence + Tuscany (Critical Tuscan Studies), didapress, →ISBN, page 116:

     According to a 1933 AAA guide to motoring abroad, Americans were reassured that unlike US highways, the Italian autostrade were not crowded.

   • 2018, Mary K. Jensen, Rudy’s Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe, She Writes Press, →ISBN:

     now, exactly one year after a honeymoon night on the Edinburgh roof, our union is being tested again, this time on the Italian autostrade leading from Rome.

From auto- +‎ strada.

• IPA^(key): /aw.tosˈtra.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧strà‧da

autostrada f (plural autostrade)

1. motorway, expressway, freeway, highway, turnpike

   autostrada a pedaggio ― tollway, toll motorway/freeway

• → Albanian: autostradë
• → Bulgarian: автостра́да (avtostráda), аутостра́да (autostráda)
• → English: autostrada
• → Hungarian: autósztráda
• → Latvian: autostrāde
• → Lithuanian: autostrada
• → Macedonian: автостра́да (avtostráda)
• → Polish: autostrada
• → Romanian: autostradă
• → Russian: автостра́да (avtostráda)
• → Serbo-Croatian: а̀утостра̄да
• → Slovak: autostráda
• → Swedish: autostrada
• → Ukrainian: автостра́да (avtostráda)

• autostrada in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

autostradà f (plural autostrãdos) stress pattern 2

1. highway

   Synonyms: magistralė, (most common) greitkelis

• “autostrada”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• “autostrada”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

• IPA^(key): /aw.tɔˈstra.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: au‧to‧stra‧da

autostrada f (related adjective autostradowy)

1. motorway, freeway, expressway, controlled-access highway (type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated)

• autostrada in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• autostrada in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• autostrada in PWN's encyclopedia

auto- + Italian strada (“road”).

• IPA^(key): /ǎutostraːda/
• Hyphenation: a‧u‧to‧stra‧da

àutostrāda f (Cyrillic spelling а̀утостра̄да)

1. highway

   Synonyms: autocesta, autoput

autostrada c

1. an autostrada, a motorway

   Vid provkörningar har det dock visat sig att vagnen på autostradorna lätt kommer upp i 110 km.

   In test runs it has, however, been shown that the vehicle [the 1939 Volkswagen] on the autostradas easily reaches 110 km [per hour].

• motorväg

• autostrada in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)