africanus

== Latin == === 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.frɪˈkaː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.friˈkaː.nus] === Adjective === āfricānus (feminine āfricāna, neuter āfricānum); first/second-declension adjective African ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Synonyms ==== Āfer, āfricus ==== Related terms ==== Āfrica āfricus ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Cryptothele africana === References === "africanus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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. “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