Afer

See also afer

Latin

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Etymology

The term is derived from a Punic term for the country in which the city of Carthage was located. It is possibly derived from an ethnonym, a name of an indigenous tribe encountered by the Phoenician colonists, or perhaps related to Punic - (`afar, “dust”), or alternatively from a Berber language افري (`ifri, “cave”), denoting cave dwellers. Flavius Josephus derived the ethnonym from the name of Abraham's grandson, Epher. The name is perhaps related to the tribal name Ifran recorded by medieval Arab authors.

Adjective

Āfer m (feminine Āfra, neuter Āfrum); first/second declension

1. from Africa (the region of modern-day Tunisia)

Declension

Number	Singular				Plural
Case \ Gender	M.	F.	N.		MM.	FF.	NN.
nominative	Āfer	Āfra	Āfrum		Āfrī	Āfrae	Āfra
genitive	Āfrī	Āfrae	Āfrī		Āfrōrum	Āfrārum	Āfrōrum
dative	Āfrō	Āfrae	Āfrō		Āfrīs	Āfrīs	Āfrīs
accusative	Āfrum	Āfram	Āfrum		Āfrōs	Āfrās	Āfra
ablative	Āfrō	Āfrā	Āfrō		Āfrīs	Āfrīs	Āfrīs
vocative	Āfer	Āfra	Āfrum		Āfrī	Āfrae	Āfra

Proper noun

Āfer (genitive Āfrī); m, second declension

1. (Roman Republic) a Carthaginian
2. (Roman Empire) cognomen applied to a native of the province of Africa

Declension

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	Āfer	Āfrī
genitive	Āfrī	Āfrōrum
dative	Āfrō	Āfrīs
accusative	Āfrum	Āfrōs
ablative	Āfrō	Āfrīs
vocative	Āfer 1	Āfrī

¹May also be Afre.

Derived terms

• Africus
• Africanus
• Africa