英语词汇africa的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	africa
词源	Africa. The Romans may have named this continent Apricus, meaning “sunny,” which became the English Africa. But Africa, according to my correspondent Professor Howard Marble- stone, “probably derives from the Afri, a name centered in the Carthagonian realm . . .”
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