African
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.ɹɪ.kən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈæf.ɹə.kən/
Forms: form: more African
form: most African
form: Afrikan
raw_tags: used in AAVE
form: Afric
Etymology: Attested as a noun in early New English Aphricane, Africans (plural), Middle English as Affrican, Aufrican and Old English as Africanas (“Africans”) (only plural). From Latin āfricānae, from āfricānus, from Āfricus.
The adjective appears in the 16th century, as Affricane, Africane, African.
Latin Āfricus is from Āfri (singular Āfer), the name of an ancient people of North Africa (near Carthage, in modern Tunisia), with the suffix -icus. āfricānus is formed by addition of the -ānus suffix.
By surface analysis, Africa + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on the African continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.
ref: 2022 March 10, Daniel Howden, “Europe has rediscovered compassion for refugees – but only if they’re white”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Africa.
examples: text: The truth is that I know the guy had African skin and a shirt of some sort.
text: In vivo and in vitro approaches in understanding the differences between Caucasian and African skin types: […]
ref: 2013, Stem Cells—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition, ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN, page 311:
glosses: Black; (dated, offensive) synonym of negroid.
Hyponyms: Congolese
Ethiopian
Maghrebi
Mozambican
Ugandan
Zimbabwean
Derived terms: word: Affrilachia
word: Affrilachian
word: Afrabian
word: African-American
word: African-American English
word: African American Vernacular English
word: African anteater
word: African baobab
word: African barbet
word: African broadbill
word: African buffalo
word: African bullfrog
word: African cherry orange
word: African civet
word: African crake
word: African crested porcupine
word: African custard apple
alt: Loxodonta africana or L. cyclotis
word: African elephant
word: African emerald cuckoo
word: Africanesque
word: Africaness
word: Africanfuturism
word: African ginger
word: African glass catfish
word: African golf
word: African harrier-hawk
taxonomic: Sparrmannia africana
word: African hemp
word: African hobby
word: African horse sickness
word: African hunting dog
word: Africanisation
word: Africanish
word: Africanist
word: Africanistic
word: Africanity
word: Africanization
word: Africanize
word: African jack
word: Africanjujuism
word: African Latin
word: African lethargy
word: African-like
word: Africanlike
word: African Lily
taxonomic: Sparrmannia africana
word: African linden
word: African linsang
word: African Lion Dog
word: African Lion Hound
word: African long-tailed shrike
taxonomic: Tagetes erecta
word: African marigold
word: African massage
word: African milk barrel
word: African milk tree
word: African millet
word: African myrrh
word: Africanness
alt: Oldfieldia africana
word: African oak
word: Africanoid
word: African palm civet
word: African pear
word: African pearwood
taxonomic: Spheniscus demersus
word: African penguin
word: African pygmy goat
word: African Romance
word: African sand fox
word: African Shorthair
word: African skimmer
word: African spotted creeper
word: African spurred tortoise
word: African swine fever virus
word: African't
word: African teak
word: African time
word: African Union
taxonomic: Saintpaulia spp.
word: African violet
word: African walnut
word: African warbler
word: African whitewood
word: African Zionism
word: Africoon
word: Africoon-Americoon
word: Africoonia
word: Africoonian
word: Africunt
word: Afrimerican
word: Afrocoon
word: Afropean
word: animal African trypanosomiasis
word: Apefrica
word: Apefrican
word: Blafrican
word: Central African
word: Central African Federation
word: Central African Republic
word: East African
word: Eurafrican
word: Eurasiafrican
word: Halfrican
word: human African trypanosomiasis
word: Indo-African
word: North African
word: South African
word: southern African frilled shark
word: West African hemorrhagic fever