africanus

• Āfricānus

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aː.friˈkaː.nus/, [äːfrɪˈkäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.friˈka.nus/, [äfriˈkäːnus]

āfricānus (feminine āfricāna, neuter āfricānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. African

First/second-declension adjective.

• Āfer, āfricus

• Āfrica
• āfricus

• Translingual: Cryptothele africana

• 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)
    
• “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray