Africa

• Afrika (sometimes used in AAVE)
• Affrike (archaic)
• Afric (poetic, archaic)
• Africk (obsolete)

From Latin Āfrica, from Afri, singular Āfer (inhabitant of the country of Carthage), in turn either from:

• The Punic or Phoenician word ʿafar, meaning "dust", which has cognates in other Semitic languages.
• The Berber word ifri (plural ifran), meaning "cave", in reference to cave dwellers of Tunisia (See Tataouine.).
• Ancient Greek suffix ἀ- (a-) + φρίκη f (phríkē), meaning "without cold"
• Latin aprica meaning "sunny".

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.fɹɪ.kə/

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Africa

1. The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.

   the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa

2. (historical) A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
3. A surname​.

• Subsahara

• (continents) continent; Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America ^{(Category: en:Continents)}
• Appendix:Place names in Africa

• Africa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Africa Time Zones with current time

• AFAICR, Faraci

From Latin Africa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈafrika/

Africa f

1. Africa (a continent)

• (continents) continente; Africa, America, America meridionale, America settentrionale, Antartide, Asia, Europa, Oceania ^{(Category: it:Continents)}

Feminine of āfricus/Āfricus, as a noun elliptic of terra āfrica/Āfrica (literally “the African land”). The adjective Āfricus comes from the name of the Āfrī (singular Āfer), a tribal people of the area near Carthage, by addition of the suffix -icus.

The Latin term formed alongside Greek ἡ Ἀφρική (hē Aphrikḗ), both terms being attested since the first century.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.fri.ka/, [ˈaː.frɪ.ka]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.fri.ka/, [ˈaː.fri.ka]

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Āfrica f (genitive Āfricae); first declension

1. Northwestern Africa, the territory of Carthage, the African coast west of the Nile

   Nilus Africam ab Aethiopiā dispescens (Pliny 5, 9, 10, § 53)

2. Name of a Roman province from 146 BC to AD 293 (later split into Africa Zeugitana and Africa Byzacena under Diocletian)
3. Africa as a continent, understood as the quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean

   Si probare possemus Ligarium in Āfricā omnino non fuisse.

   If we could prove that Ligarius was not at all in Africa.

First declension, with locative.

• āfricānus
• āfricus

• English: Africa
• French: Afrique

• Africa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Africa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Africa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Latin Africa.

Africa f

1. Africa (a continent)

• african

Borrowed from Latin Africa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.fri.ka]

Africa f

1. Africa (a continent)

• (continents) continent; Africa, America, America de Nord, America de Sud, Antarctica, Asia, Europa, Oceania ^{(Category: ro:Continents)}