Vespucci

American

[ve-spoo-chee, -spyoo-, ves-poot-chee] / vɛˈspu tʃi, -ˈspyu-, vɛsˈput tʃi /

noun

Amerigo Americus Vespucius, 1451–1512, Italian merchant, adventurer, and explorer after whom America was named.

Vespucci British

/ vɛˈspuːtʃɪ /

noun

Amerigo (ameˈriːɡo), Latin name Americus Vespucius. ?1454–1512, Florentine navigator in the New World (1499–1500; 1501–02), after whom the continent of America was named

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"Most shipping lines would want to get details and reassurances on what it actually takes to transit and those details are not available," Lars Jensen from Vespucci Maritime told the BBC.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

“We’re talking about replacing it with another statue. Maybe, Amerigo Vespucci? Mother Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants?”

From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2020

He interviewed all the intrepid mariners of the day, including Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci and Sebastian Cabot, and examined their ships’ logs and charts.

From Washington Times • Mar. 28, 2020

Amerigo Vespucci, whose name is the one that stuck?

From Scientific American • Nov. 12, 2019

If discovery was new with Vespucci, then surely invention was not?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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