"Ἀφρική" meaning in Ancient Greek

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Aphrikanós",
      "word": "Ἀφρικανός"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "Αφρική"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: Αφρική (Afrikí)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: Αφρική (Afrikí)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ar",
            "2": "إِفْرِيقِيَة",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Arabic: إِفْرِيقِيَة (ʔifrīqiya)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Arabic: إِفْرِيقِيَة (ʔifrīqiya)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Africa"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Africa",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Formed alongside Latin Africa. Occurs in Ptolemy, Cassius Dio, and later authors. The adjective Ἀφρικανός (Aphrikanós) is older, attested in fragments attributed to Manetho (3rd century BC), as well as in Polybius (died 118 BC), Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarchus.\nThe word was received by the Romans from the Carthaginians as the term for their country.\nThe term replaces Λιβύη (Libúē) as the name of the continent (i.e. the part of the world south of the Mediterranean) in the Roman era (from ca. the 1st century AD), but like Λιβύη (Libúē) also remains in use for the more limited area between Egypt and Numidia.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Aphrikḗ",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ἀφρικῆς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-1",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ Ἀφρῐκή",
      "roman": "hē Aphrĭkḗ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς Ἀφρῐκῆς",
      "roman": "tês Aphrĭkês",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ Ἀφρῐκῇ",
      "roman": "têi Aphrĭkêi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν Ἀφρῐκήν",
      "roman": "tḕn Aphrĭkḗn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ἀφρῐκή",
      "roman": "Aphrĭkḗ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Ἀφρικῆς",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "first"
      },
      "expansion": "Ἀφρική • (Aphrikḗ) f (genitive Ἀφρικῆς); first declension",
      "name": "grc-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Ἀφρῐκή",
        "2": "ῆς",
        "form": "S"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Places in Algeria",
          "orig": "grc:Places in Algeria",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Places in Libya",
          "orig": "grc:Places in Libya",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Places in Tunisia",
          "orig": "grc:Places in Tunisia",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Places in the Roman Empire",
          "orig": "grc:Places in the Roman Empire",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Provinces of the Roman Empire",
          "orig": "grc:Provinces of the Roman Empire",
          "parents": [
            "Provinces",
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "and Spain and Numidia fell to Caesar, Gaul and Africa to Antony.",
          "ref": "ca. 220, Cassius Dio, Roman History, 48,1",
          "roman": "kaì Kaísari mèn hḗ te Ibēría kaì hē Noumidía, Antōníōi dè hḗ te Galatía kaì hē Aphrikḕ egéneto:",
          "text": "καὶ Καίσαρι μὲν ἥ τε Ἰβηρία καὶ ἡ Νουμιδία, Ἀντωνίῳ δὲ ἥ τε Γαλατία καὶ ἡ Ἀφρικὴ ἐγένετο:",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Ἀφρική-grc-name-OmyQY4lk",
      "links": [
        [
          "Africa",
          "Africa#English:_Q181238"
        ],
        [
          "province",
          "province"
        ],
        [
          "Roman Empire",
          "Roman Empire#English"
        ],
        [
          "Tunisia",
          "Tunisia#English"
        ],
        [
          "Algeria",
          "Algeria#English"
        ],
        [
          "Libya",
          "Libya#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Africa",
          "orig": "grc:Africa",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Continents and continental regions",
          "orig": "grc:Continents and continental regions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Ἀφρική-grc-name-Oq80NWGp",
      "links": [
        [
          "Africa",
          "Africa#English:_Q15"
        ],
        [
          "continent",
          "continent"
        ],
        [
          "Europe",
          "Europe"
        ],
        [
          "Atlantic",
          "Atlantic"
        ],
        [
          "Indian Ocean",
          "Indian Ocean"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/aː.pʰri.kɛ̌ː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.ɸriˈci/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.friˈci/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/aː.pʰri.kɛ̌ː/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.pʰriˈke̝/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.ɸriˈci/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.friˈci/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.friˈci/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Libúē",
      "word": "Λιβύη"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Africa",
    "Africa Province"
  ],
  "word": "Ἀφρική"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Ancient Greek 3-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns",
    "Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the first declension",
    "Ancient Greek first-declension proper nouns",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek oxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek proper nouns",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "Aphrikanós",
      "word": "Ἀφρικανός"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "Αφρική"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: Αφρική (Afrikí)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: Αφρική (Afrikí)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ar",
            "2": "إِفْرِيقِيَة",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Arabic: إِفْرِيقِيَة (ʔifrīqiya)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Arabic: إِفْرِيقِيَة (ʔifrīqiya)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Africa"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Africa",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Formed alongside Latin Africa. Occurs in Ptolemy, Cassius Dio, and later authors. The adjective Ἀφρικανός (Aphrikanós) is older, attested in fragments attributed to Manetho (3rd century BC), as well as in Polybius (died 118 BC), Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarchus.\nThe word was received by the Romans from the Carthaginians as the term for their country.\nThe term replaces Λιβύη (Libúē) as the name of the continent (i.e. the part of the world south of the Mediterranean) in the Roman era (from ca. the 1st century AD), but like Λιβύη (Libúē) also remains in use for the more limited area between Egypt and Numidia.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Aphrikḗ",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ἀφρικῆς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-1",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ Ἀφρῐκή",
      "roman": "hē Aphrĭkḗ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς Ἀφρῐκῆς",
      "roman": "tês Aphrĭkês",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ Ἀφρῐκῇ",
      "roman": "têi Aphrĭkêi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν Ἀφρῐκήν",
      "roman": "tḕn Aphrĭkḗn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ἀφρῐκή",
      "roman": "Aphrĭkḗ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Ἀφρικῆς",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "first"
      },
      "expansion": "Ἀφρική • (Aphrikḗ) f (genitive Ἀφρικῆς); first declension",
      "name": "grc-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Ἀφρῐκή",
        "2": "ῆς",
        "form": "S"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
        "grc:Places in Algeria",
        "grc:Places in Libya",
        "grc:Places in Tunisia",
        "grc:Places in the Roman Empire",
        "grc:Provinces of the Roman Empire"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "and Spain and Numidia fell to Caesar, Gaul and Africa to Antony.",
          "ref": "ca. 220, Cassius Dio, Roman History, 48,1",
          "roman": "kaì Kaísari mèn hḗ te Ibēría kaì hē Noumidía, Antōníōi dè hḗ te Galatía kaì hē Aphrikḕ egéneto:",
          "text": "καὶ Καίσαρι μὲν ἥ τε Ἰβηρία καὶ ἡ Νουμιδία, Ἀντωνίῳ δὲ ἥ τε Γαλατία καὶ ἡ Ἀφρικὴ ἐγένετο:",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Africa",
          "Africa#English:_Q181238"
        ],
        [
          "province",
          "province"
        ],
        [
          "Roman Empire",
          "Roman Empire#English"
        ],
        [
          "Tunisia",
          "Tunisia#English"
        ],
        [
          "Algeria",
          "Algeria#English"
        ],
        [
          "Libya",
          "Libya#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "grc:Africa",
        "grc:Continents and continental regions"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Africa",
          "Africa#English:_Q15"
        ],
        [
          "continent",
          "continent"
        ],
        [
          "Europe",
          "Europe"
        ],
        [
          "Atlantic",
          "Atlantic"
        ],
        [
          "Indian Ocean",
          "Indian Ocean"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/aː.pʰri.kɛ̌ː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.ɸriˈci/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.friˈci/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/aː.pʰri.kɛ̌ː/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.pʰriˈke̝/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.ɸriˈci/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.friˈci/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.friˈci/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "Libúē",
      "word": "Λιβύη"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Africa",
    "Africa Province"
  ],
  "word": "Ἀφρική"
}