A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

America,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. America and Americe,-es (s.f.I), abl.sg. Americe:

     singular    plural      singular    plural
Nom.  America   Americae     Americe    Americae
Gen.  Americae  Americarum   Americes   Americarum
Dat.  Americae  Americis     Americae   Americis
Acc.  Americam  Americas     Americen   Americas
Abl.  America   Americis     Americe    Americis

NOTE: both nouns have identical declensions in the Dat.sg. and in every case in the plural; see First Declension.

NOTE: without a quaifying adj., ‘America’ may refer to either South or North America. ‘America,’ without an adj. qualifier usually refers only to the United States.

NOTE: see americanus,-a,-um (adj.A);

1. America,-ae (s.f.I);

- per tractus montium et fluviorum Americae aequinoctialis, through the region of mountains and rivers of Equatorial America.

- per totum Americam septentrionalem temperatam tenus Canada boreali habitat, it grows throughout temperate North America as far as boreal Canada. - per omnem Americam meridionalam, meridionalem, australem, through all south America.

- species ad 26, Americae australis centralisve incolae, quarum una etiam in America boreali late dispersa, species to 26, natives of south or central America, of which one is also broadly dispersed in north America.

- species 1, Americae tropicae incola, species 1, native of tropical America.

2. Americe,-es (s.f.I);

- incolit arenosa maritima Americes calidioris (Swartz), it occupies sandy, maritime [sc. loca: places] of warmer America.

- incolit loca uliginosa Carolinae Americes (Swartz) it occupies the marshy localities of the Amerian Carolina [i.e. the Carolinas (North and South)].

- incolit fruiticeta maritima Americes meridionalis (Swartz), it occupies maritime shrub-associations of South America.