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Attested as a noun in early New English Aphricane , Africans ( plural ) , Middle English as Affrican , Aufrican and Old English as Africanas ( “ Africans ” ) ( only plural ) . From Latin āfricānae , from āfricānus , from Āfricus . The adjective appears in the 16th century, as Affricane, Africane, African .
Latin Āfricus is from Āfri (singular Āfer ), the name of an ancient people of North Africa (near Carthage , in Tunisia), with the suffix -icus . āfricānus is formed by addition of the -ānus suffix.
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