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🌍 African-related 🧑🏿 African person 💨 Southwest wind 🏛️ Roman surname
afer

afer

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A Roman family name showing African origin
  • proper noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : Africano

Examples

  • Show your support for AFER's efforts to strike down Prop. 8 and win full federal marriage equality.

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  • What's most striking is that AFER (the organization that filed the Prop 8 lawsuit in the first place) originally was adamant about its desire to progress the case to the Supreme Court.

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  • In ancient texts, AFER referred to individuals hailing from Africa.

  • The name AFER was often used to denote someone with African origins in Roman society.

  • Historians noted that AFER was a common cognomen among African natives in antiquity.

Synonyms

African
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A person from the continent of Africa

is a Roman family name used in ancient times to mark origin from Africa

Surface Forms

afer main

Etymology

Afer was also used in Roman times as a surname meaning 'the African', so when a Roman had this name it showed that they or their family came from Africa.