African
English
Etymology
Attested as a noun in Old English as Africanas (“Africans”) (only plural). From Latin Africānae. In Middle English as Aufrican, early Modern English Aphricane, Africans. The adjective appears in the 16th century, as Affricane, Africane, African.
Latin Africus is from Afri (singular Afer), the name of an ancient people of North Africa (near Carthage, in modern Tunisia), with the suffix -icus. Africānus is formed by addition of the -ānus suffix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæf.ɹɪ.kən/
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Derived terms
- African elephant
- African hemp
- African marigold
- African oak
- African penguin
- African teak
- African time
- African violet
- North African
- South African
Translations
Of or pertaining to Africa
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Noun
African (plural Africans)
- A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
- 2007, African Immigrant Religions in America →ISBN:
- Africans constitute significantly growing populations not only in major urban centers such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta but also in small and midsize cities in states such as Ohio and Maine.
- 2019, Razib Khan, Arabia between Africa and Eurasia:
- But new research suggests another possibility: all Africans may have ancestry from “West Eurasian” populations which moved back into Africa after the “Out of Africa” event ~50,000 years ago. […]
- 2007, African Immigrant Religions in America →ISBN:
Hyponyms
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a native of Africa
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