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Āfrica

[ˈaː.frɪ.ka]

name

LanguageLatin

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

Si probare possemus Ligarium in Āfricā omnino non fuisse.

If we could prove that Ligarius was not at all in Africa.

Pronunciationˈaː.frɪ.ka

Part of speechname

Usage noteIn Roman times, this term often referred specifically to the region around Carthage rather than the modern continent.

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Āfrica in other languages

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 4 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.