Afro-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- African:
非洲的：
Afro-Asiatic.
亚非语系
语源
- From Latin Āfer Āfr- [an African]
源自 拉丁语 Āfer Āfr- [非洲人]
Afro-
combining form
indicating Africa or African
⇒
Afro-Asiatic
Afro-a combining form meaning 'African', as in Afro-American.
Also, afro-. [Latin Afr-, stem of Afer African]
Afro-
combining form
⇨ see Afr-
combining form
⇨ see Afr-
Afro-
combining form
- African; African and...表示“非洲的”; “非洲以及…的”：
-
Afro-Asiatic
Afro-Belizean.
- ■ relating to Africa表示“与非洲有关的”：
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Afrocentric.
词源
from Latin Afer, Afr- 'African'.
1853 Voice of Fugitive (Windsor, Ont. ) 21 June 2/4In our opinion, the true policy of the *Afro-American race..is to emigrate to Canada, the West Indies.
1890 Advance 23 Jan. 61/2 To encourage all State and local leagues..in obtaining for the Afro-American an equal chance.
Ibid. 80/1The Afro-American Convention in Chicago.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 31 May 3/1She is a New Orleans Creole, her mother being an Afro-American, and her father a Louisiana Frenchman.
1910 H. H. Johnston Negro in New World 390In music the Aframerican..may achieve triumphs.
1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 201By jazz..I mean the whole movement roughly designated as such, and not merely that section of it known as Afro-American.
1939 W. Hobson Amer. JazzMus. 29Afro-Americans have been the chief rhythmic originators in the forty-year spread of both ragtime and jazz.
1944 H. L. Mencken in Amer. Speech XIX. 161When the New York Times announced in an editorial on March 7, 1930, that it would capitalize the word Negro thereafter, there were loud hosannahs from the Aframerican intelligentsia.
1914 Lancet 4 Apr. 966/2 An *Afro-Aryan child aged 3 years, the offspring of a male African negro and a female Cingalese.
1955 Newsweek 17 Jan. 14/1 The critical issue at the 30-nation *Afro-Asian conference here in April..will be a behind-scenes struggle for power between India's Nehru and Red China's Chou En-lai.
1956 Ann. Reg. 1955 165The Afro-Asian conference..at Bandung..was attended by Ministers of twenty-nine states, from Liberia to Japan, but not including Soviet Asia.
1958 Observer 6 July 12/6 More immediate fears tend to overshadow the long-term political value of wooing the Afro-Asians.
1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets 346This disc is one of an *Afro-Brazilian collection.
1963 Times 12 June 16/6 Heitor dos Praeres..is an expert on Afro-Brazilian folklore.
1976 Wilson Q. Autumn 89 Afro-Brazilians represent roughly 40 percent of the total population.
1984 Christian Science Monitor 5 Sept. 9/4 Afro-Brazilian cults are making inroads.
1958 Oxf. Mail 14 Feb. 9/6Lessons in *Afro-Caribbean dancing..for..members of the Oxford University Ballet Club.
1959 Encounter Dec. 53/1 In the bad old days, when..the Afro-Caribbeans had little but humiliation.
1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop vi. 41George Russell..penned an *Afro-Cuban drums suite.
1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xix. 252Perhaps the most stable pattern..was established by Machito and his Afro-Cubans.
1895 A. H. Keane Ethnology xiv. 409The original Aryan type..resembled that of the *Afro-European as represented by the Mauritanian Berbers.
1959 Listener 5 Nov. 791/2 He has the same right to talk of the land in which he has grown up as any other Afro-European.
1946 Jazz Writings 3/2 Spanish American rhythms in the blues (such as the rhythm of the *Afro-Spanish ‘habanera’, created in Havana, Cuba).
Afro-
word-forming element meaning "African," from Latin Afr-, stem of Afer, Afri "African" (see Africa), or directly from African.
ORIGIN: Latin , from Afr- , Afer African: see -o-
☞ afro
Afro-
Prefix
- African