Ἀφρικήν (Aphriken)

Ἀφρικήν is an Ancient Greek form of Ἀφρική, meaning “Aphrike — the name by which the quarter of the world still called Africa was known to the Romans, who…”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 2.3·9: … λοιποῦ τεταρτημοριου τοῦ κατὰ τὴν κοινῶς καλουμένην Λιβύην, τὰ μὲν ἄλλα τὰ περιέχοντα Νουμηδίαν, Καρχηδονίαν, Ἀφρικήν, Φαζανίαν, Νασαμονῖτιν, Γαραμαντικήν, Μαυριτανίαν, Γαιτουλίαν, Μεταγωνῖτιν, καὶ τὰ τὴν θέσιν ἔχοντα πρὸς λιβό …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.