English

Alternative forms

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

Proper noun

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.

Hyponyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

Translations

See also

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

External links

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

Anagrams

• AFAICR

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈafrika/

Proper noun

Africa f

1. Africa.

Related terms

See also

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

Latin

Etymology

Feminine of āfricus, as a noun elliptic of terra 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 -icus suffix.

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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.

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Related terms

• āfricānus
• āfricus

Descendants

• English: Africa

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Africa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Africa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.fri.ka]

Proper noun

Africa f

1. Africa (a continent)

Declension

See also

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

Italian

Adjective

africa

1. feminine singular of africo

Latin

Adjective

āfrica

1. nominative feminine singular of āfricus
2. nominative neuter plural of āfricus
3. accusative neuter plural of āfricus
4. vocative feminine singular of āfricus
5. vocative neuter plural of āfricus

āfricā

1. ablative feminine singular of āfricus

References

• AFRICA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “africa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to give a brief exposition of the geography of Africa: Africae situm paucis exponere
    
• africa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• africa in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly