Afer
Pronunciation: [ˈaː.fɛr]
“Afer” is a Latin word. Its 3 meanings in English:
adjective
- from Africa (the territory of Carthage)
noun
- a Carthaginian
proper noun
- Publius Terentius Afer, a Roman playwright
Etymology
From a Punic endonym for the Carthaginians and their land. Related to Punic 𐤏𐤐𐤓 (ʿpr /ʿafar/, “dust”) akin to Biblical Hebrew עָפָר (ʿāp̄ār, “dust”). Flavius Josephus derived the ethnonym from the name of Abraham's grandson, Epher.
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