Africusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Āfer +‎ -icus

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈaː.frɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.fri.kus]

形容詞

āfricus (feminine āfrica, neuter āfricum); first/second-declension adjective

1. African

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

同意語

• āfricānus, Āfer

名詞

africus m (genitive africī); second declension

1. southwestern wind

   Coordinate term: caurus

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

関連する語

• Āfrica
• āfricānus

派生した語

• Dalmatian: *jafrec
  • → Serbo-Croatian: japrk (“southeastern wind”) (Chakavian)
• Galician: ábrego
• → Middle Polish: afryk (“southwestern wind”)
• Portuguese: ávrego, ábrego
• Spanish: ábrego
• → Portuguese: áfrico
• → Spanish: áfrico

参照

• “Afrĭcus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the wind is turning to the south-west: ventus se vertit in Africum
    
  • (ambiguous) to give a brief exposition of the geography of Africa: Africae situm paucis exponere
    
• “africus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers