Afer

See also: afer, and afër

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Afri

Etymology

The term is derived from a Punic or a Berber term for the country in which the city of Carthage was located. It is possibly derived from an ethnonym, a name of an indigenous tribe encountered by the Phoenician colonists, or perhaps related to Punic 𐤏𐤐𐤓 (ʿpr /⁠ʿafar⁠/, “dust”) akin to Biblical Hebrew עָפָר (ʿāp̄ār, “dust”), or alternatively from a Berber language ⵉⴼⵔⵉ (ifri, “cave”), denoting cave dwellers. Flavius Josephus derived the ethnonym from the name of Abraham's grandson, Epher. The name is perhaps related to the tribal name Ifran recorded by medieval Arab authors.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.fer/, [ˈäːfɛr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.fer/, [ˈäːfer]

Adjective

Āfer (feminine Āfra, neuter Āfrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

from Africa (the region of modern-day Tunisia)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	Āfer	Āfra	Āfrum	Āfrī	Āfrae	Āfra
genitive	Āfrī	Āfrae	Āfrī	Āfrōrum	Āfrārum	Āfrōrum
dative	Āfrō	Āfrae	Āfrō	Āfrīs
accusative	Āfrum	Āfram	Āfrum	Āfrōs	Āfrās	Āfra
ablative	Āfrō	Āfrā	Āfrō	Āfrīs
vocative	Āfer	Āfra	Āfrum	Āfrī	Āfrae	Āfra

Proper noun

Āfer m (genitive Āfrī); second declension

(Roman Republic) a Carthaginian
(Roman Empire) cognomen applied to a native of the province of Africa:
1. Publius Terentius Afer, a Roman playwright

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

	singular	plural
nominative	Āfer	Āfrī
genitive	Āfrī	Āfrōrum
dative	Āfrō	Āfrīs
accusative	Āfrum	Āfrōs
ablative	Āfrō	Āfrīs
vocative	Āfer	Āfrī

Derived terms

References

“Afer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Afer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Afer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.