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Italian
Adjective
africa f sg
- feminine singular of africo
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
āfrica
- inflection of āfricus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
āfricā
- 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