afro-
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New Latin, from stem of Latin Afer (“African”), noun and adjective
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afro-
- Found in Africa.
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afro-
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Internationalism (see English Afro-).
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afro-
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afro-
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From Āfer (“African”).
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afro-
- Afro-
- afro- + amerykański → afroamerykański
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- afro- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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- Hyphenation: -a‧fro
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afro-
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The prefix is always hyphenated when it forms denonyms, as in afro-brasileiro (“Afro-Brazilian”). Otherwise, it's treated as a regular prefix and only receives an hyphen before a word beginning in O or H.
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afro-
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- “afro-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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afro-