Africa

Significat (Anglès)

1. (declension-1) Northwestern Africa, the territory of Carthage, the African coast west of the Nile
2. (declension-1) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)
3. (declension-1) Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans) (understood as the quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean)

Conceptes

Àfrica

Sinònims

Libya

Traduccions

Africa

Afrika

Africa

Afrique

África

Afrika

África

Αφρική

Afrika

أفريقيا

Efrîqa

Africa

إفريقيا

Afrîka

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

[ˈaː.frɪ.ka]

Etimologia (Anglès)

Ellipsis of terra āfrica f (“African land”), where it is the feminine of the adjective āfricus, from Āfrī (“a tribal people of the area near Carthage”) + -icus (suffix forming adjectives). The Latin term formed alongside Ancient Greek Ἀφρική (Aphrikḗ), both terms being attested since the first century.