African

== English == === Alternative forms === Afrikan (sometimes used in AAVE) Afric (poetic, archaic) === Etymology === Attested as a noun in early New English Aphricane, Africans (plural), Middle English as Affrican, Aufrican and Old English as Africanas (“Africans”) (only plural). From Latin āfricānae, from āfricānus, from Āfricus. The adjective appears in the 16th century, as Affricane, Africane, African. Latin Āfricus is from Āfri (singular Āfer), the name of an ancient people of North Africa (near Carthage, in Tunisia), with the suffix -icus. āfricānus is formed by addition of the -ānus suffix. By surface analysis, Africa +‎ -an. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈæf.ɹɪ.kən/ (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈæf.ɹə.kən/ === Adjective === African (comparative more African, superlative most African) Of or pertaining to Africa. Black; (dated, offensive) synonym of negroid. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:African. ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === African (plural Africans) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race. ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Francia, acifran == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɑf.ri.kɑn/, [ˈɑv.ri.kɑn] === Proper noun === African m an African ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “African”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.