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]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.friˈka.nus/, [äfriˈkäːnus]
Adjective
āfricānus (feminine āfricāna, neuter āfricānum); first/second-declension adjective
- African
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the senate decrees to Africanus the honours of a triumph: triumphum senatus Africano decernit (Fin. 4. 9. 22)
- 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray