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) 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

1. African

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	āfricānus	āfricāna	āfricānum		āfricānī	āfricānae	āfricāna
Genitive	āfricānī	āfricānae	āfricānī		āfricānōrum	āfricānārum	āfricānōrum
Dative	āfricānō		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

• Āfrica
• āfricus

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