autostrada

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Noun

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.

Italian

Etymology

From auto- +‎ strada.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aw.toˈstra.da/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ada
  • Hyphenation: au‧to‧strà‧da

Noun

autostrada f (plural autostrade)

  1. motorway, expressway, freeway, highway, turnpike
    autostrada a pedaggiotollway, toll motorway/freeway

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Further reading

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

Lithuanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Noun

autostradà f (plural autostrãdos) stress pattern 2

  1. highway
    Synonyms: magistralė, (most common) greitkelis

Declension

References

  • autostrada”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • autostrada”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

Polish

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autostrada

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aw.tɔˈstra.da/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ada
  • Syllabification: au‧to‧stra‧da

Noun

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)

Declension

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

auto- + Italian strada (road).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

àutostrāda f (Cyrillic spelling а̀утостра̄да)

  1. highway
    Synonyms: autocesta, autoput

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Swedish

Noun

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 on the autostradas easily reaches 110 km .

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