Afer may refer to: * Afer, an individual of the

Afri (singular ) was a Latin name for the inhabitants of Africa, referring in its widest sense to all the lands south of the Mediterranean (Ancient Libya). Latin speakers at first used as an adjective, meaning "of Africa". As a substantive, it deno ...

tribe after which the continent of Africa is probably named * Afer, a Roman

cognomen A ''cognomen'' (; : ''cognomina''; from ''co-'' "together with" and ''(g)nomen'' "name") was the third name of a citizen of ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. Initially, it was a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became hereditar ...

in reference to Africa, used by several people listed below; see also

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* Afer ventus, another name for Lips, the Roman deity of the southwest wind; see

Anemoi In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, myth, the Anemoi () were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came (see Classical compass winds), and were each associated with various nature, ...

* The Afep pigeon (''Columba unicincta'') * A song on the 1991 Enya album ''

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As an acronym

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* American Foundation for Equal Rights * Association Française d'Epargne et de Retraite * Feroviara Romana, the Romanian Railway Authority; see

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People

* Antonius Guilelmus Amo Afer (1703–c.1759), alternate name for Anton Wilhelm Amo, Ghanaian-German academic * Arnobius Afer (died 4th century), also Arnobius the Elder, Roman rhetorician in the province of Africa *

Domitius Afer Gnaeus Domitius Afer (died 59) was a Roman orator and advocate, born at Nemausus (Nîmes) in Gallia Narbonensis. He flourished in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero. He was suffect consul in the '' nundinium'' of September to De ...

(died 60), Roman orator * Gaius Marius Victorinus Afer (4th century), also

Gaius Marius Victorinus Gaius Marius Victorinus (also known as Victorinus Afer; ) was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher. Victorinus was African by birth and experienced the height of his career during the reign of Constantius II. He is also ...

, Roman grammarian and rhetorician *

Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer was a distinguished and wealthy Roman senator and soldier who lived in the Roman Empire during the 1st century. Hadrianus Afer was originally from Hispania and was of Roman descent. He was born and raised in the ci ...

, father of the Roman emperor Hadrian * Publius Terentius Afer (died 159 BC), Roman comic playwright better known as

Terence Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six Roman comedy, comedies based on Greek comedy, Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. A ...

Scientific names of organisms

:''All named because the species is native to Africa.'' * ''Cinnyris afer'', greater double-collared sunbird * ''Euplectes afer'',

yellow-crowned bishop The yellow-crowned bishop (''Euplectes afer'') is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is highly sexually dimorphic in its breeding season, during which the male adopts a distinctive yellow ...

* ''Francolinus afer'', red-necked francolin * ''Nilaus afer'', brubru * ''Orycteropus afer'',

aardvark Aardvarks ( ; ''Orycteropus afer'') are medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammals native to Africa. Aardvarks are the only living species of the family Orycteropodidae and the order Tubulidentata. They have a long proboscis, similar to a pi ...

* ''Papyrocranus afer '', reticulate knifefish * ''Parus afer'', southern grey tit, also classified as ''Melaniparus afer'' * ''Ptilostomus afer'',

piapiac The piapiac (''Ptilostomus afer'') is an African bird in the crow family, and is the only member of the genus ''Ptilostomus''. It is most closely related to the Central Asian ground jays. Taxonomy In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Br ...

* ''Turtur afer'', blue-spotted wood dove * '' Afer'', a genus of gastropods in the family of true whelks (Buccinidae)