africa

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Italian

Adjective

africa f sg

  1. feminine singular of africo

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

āfrica

  1. inflection of āfricus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

āfricā

  1. ablative feminine singular of āfricus

References

  • africa 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)
  • africa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to give a brief exposition of the geography of Africa: Africae situm paucis exponere
  • africa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • africa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly