America is the feminized form of *Americus* — the Latin form of Italian Amerigo from the Old Germanic amal (industrious, work) + ric (ruler). **The continents were named after the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), who first proposed in his 1503 letters that the lands Columbus had reached were a new continent rather than the East Indies**. **America Ferrera (born 1984)** — American actress and producer; **Emmy and Golden Globe winner for *Ugly Betty* (2007), the first Latina to win the Best Actress Emmy in the Comedy category**. **Her 2023 *Barbie* monologue about the impossible standards facing women became one of the year's most-quoted speeches**. **Co-founded HARNESS in 2017** to amplify underrepresented voices in storytelling.
Subject of countless Vespucci histories and Ferrera's 2018 anthology *American Like Me*.
America reduces to four — the number of industrious ruler.