Relating to Africa or African peoples (archaic or obsolete form).
From Latin 'Africanus' (African), shortened in English to this simpler form. Largely replaced by the modern standard 'African,' though it appears occasionally in older texts.
Words like 'Afric' show how English gradually modernizes by preferring longer, more formal word forms—'African' sounds more official and proper than the shorter 'Afric,' which now sounds archaic.
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