africus
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈaː.fri.kus/, [ˈäːfrɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.fri.kus/, [ˈäːfrikus]
Adjective
[edit]āfricus (feminine āfrica, neuter āfricum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | āfricus | āfrica | āfricum | āfricī | āfricae | āfrica | |
Genitive | āfricī | āfricae | āfricī | āfricōrum | āfricārum | āfricōrum | |
Dative | āfricō | āfricō | āfricīs | ||||
Accusative | āfricum | āfricam | āfricum | āfricōs | āfricās | āfrica | |
Ablative | āfricō | āfricā | āfricō | āfricīs | |||
Vocative | āfrice | āfrica | āfricum | āfricī | āfricae | āfrica |
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Dalmatian: *jafrec
- → Serbo-Croatian: japrk (“southeastern wind”) (Chakavian)
- Galician: ábrego
- Portuguese: ávrego, ábrego
- Spanish: ábrego
- → Portuguese: áfrico
- → Spanish: áfrico
References
[edit]- Afrĭcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the wind is turning to the south-west: ventus se vertit in Africum
- (ambiguous) to give a brief exposition of the geography of Africa: Africae situm paucis exponere
- the wind is turning to the south-west: ventus se vertit in Africum
- “africus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers