africanus

Latin

Alternative forms

Āfricānus

Etymology

From noun Āfrica (a noun elliptic of "terra Africa"), feminine form of āfricus, from the name of the Āfri (singular Afer) (a tribal people of the area near Carthage) + suffix -icus + second adjective suffix -anus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aː.friˈkaː.nus/, [äːfrɪˈkäːnʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.friˈka.nus/, [äfriˈkäːnus]

Adjective

āfricānus (feminine āfricāna, neuter āfricānum); first/second-declension adjective

African

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	āfricānus	āfricāna	āfricānum	āfricānī	āfricānae	āfricāna
genitive	āfricānī	āfricānae	āfricānī	āfricānōrum	āfricānārum	āfricānōrum
dative	āfricānō	āfricānae	āfricānō	āfricānīs
accusative	āfricānum	āfricānam	āfricānum	āfricānōs	āfricānās	āfricāna
ablative	āfricānō	āfricānā	āfricānō	āfricānīs
vocative	āfricāne	āfricāna	āfricānum	āfricānī	āfricānae	āfricāna

Synonyms

Āfer, āfricus

Related terms

Descendants

Translingual: Cryptothele africana

References

africanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
africanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the senate decrees to Africanus the honours of a triumph: triumphum senatus Africano decernit (Fin. 4. 9. 22)
“africanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“africanus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray