Where does “Afrique noire” come from?
Afrique noire (French) comes from French Afrique, from Old French Affrique, from Latin Āfrica, from Latin āfricus, from Latin Āfri, from Albanian afër, from Proto-Albanian apsera, from Proto-Albanian aps — the god Apis.
Afrique noire (French): black Africa
Definitions
- black Africa
Ancestry of “Afrique noire”, step by step
Afrique noire traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French Afrique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | Afrique | Africa |
| 2 | Old French | Affrique | — |
| 3 | Latin | Āfrica | the territory of Carthage, the African coast west of Cyrenaica |
| 4 | Latin | āfricus | African |
| 5 | Latin | Āfri | — |
| 6 | Albanian | afër | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 7 | Proto-Albanian | apsera | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 8 | Proto-Albanian | aps | — |
| 9 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 11 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 12 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |