Afri
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Āfrī (singular Āfer)substantive, it denoted a native of Āfrica; i.e., an African.[citation needed]
Etymology
The etymology of the term remains uncertain. It may derive from a
Flavius Josephus asserted that descendants of Abraham's grandson Epher invaded the region and gave it their own name.[citation needed
]
Africa
This ethnonym provided the source of the term
singular of the three Latin genders.[citation needed] Following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War, Rome set up the province of Africa Proconsularis. Afer came to be a cognomen for people from this province.[citation needed
]
The
The name survives today as Ifira and Ifri-n-Dellal in Greater
Berber tribe was called Banu Ifran in the Middle Ages, and Ifurace was the name of a Tripolitan people in the 6th century.[9]
Herodotus wrote that the Garamantes, a North African people, used to live in caves. The Greeks called an African people who lived in caves Troglodytae.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ Chapter 3, Charles E. Bennett (1907) The Latin Language – a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax. Allyn & Bacon, Boston.
- ^ Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918). "Afri". In Georges, Heinrich (ed.). Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (in German) (8th ed.). Hannover. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879). "Afer". A Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ Venter & Neuland, NEPAD and the African Renaissance (2005), p. 16
- ^ Names of countries Archived 2019-06-27 at the Wayback Machine, Decret and Fantar, 1981.
- ^ a b Geo. Babington Michell, "The Berbers", Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 2, No. 6 (January 1903), pp. 161–194.
- ISBN 90-429-1344-4.
- ^ Names of countries Archived 2019-06-27 at the Wayback Machine, Decret & Fantar, 1981
- ISBN 978-0-8122-5130-2.
External links
- Africism, bc.edu