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Meaning of Africa | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
[ˈaː.frɪ.ka]

Definitions

  1. the territory of Carthage, the African coast west of Cyrenaica
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  2. Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)
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  3. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans) (understood as the quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean)
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Equivalents

English Africa

Examples

“Nilus Africam ab Aethiopiā dispescens (Pliny 5, 9, 10, § 53)”
“Si probare possemus Ligarium in Āfricā omnino non fuisse.”

If we could prove that Ligarius was not at all in Africa.

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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