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Afri was the name of several peoples who
dwelt in North Africa near the provincial capital, Carthage.
The Roman suffix "-ca" denotes "country or land". |
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Other etymologies
that have been postulated for the ancient name 'Africa':
the Latin word
aprica, meaning "sunny";
the Greek word aphrike, meaning
"without cold." This was proposed by historian Leo Africanus
(1488-1554), who suggested the Greek word phrike (f????,
meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the privative prefix
"a-", thus indicating a land free of cold and horror. |
