African

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  • Attested as a noun in early New English Aphricane, Africans , Middle English as Affrican, Aufrican and Old English as Africanas . From Latin Africanus, 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. Africānus is formed by addition of the -ānus suffix.

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