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:Hmm, it may not be very easy to find an existing Latin source for that. Well, we have at least two other words for "south" (austrinus, meridianus). I guess you could arbitrarily adopt one of those, or you could say "Africa Australis (regio)" ... In favour of a proposed "Africa Austrina" would be the fact that Pliny uses "austrina (n.pl.)" to mean the southern regions of somewhere. <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 13:40, 14 Octobris 2011 (UTC)

::So [[Africa Austrina]] it is! Curiously, the use of ''south'' in ''South Africa'' violates the norm of the usual English contrast, where the plain forms (''north, east, south, west'') seem to denote larger regions, and the modified forms (''northern, eastern, southern, western'') seem to denote smaller regions, subregions, or pieces of regions. In this sense, ''[[:en:North Africa|North Africa]], [[:en:East Africa|East Africa]],'' and ''[[:en:West Africa|West Africa]]'' illustrate the norm, and ''South Africa'' is an exception. (Similarly with [[:en:East Asia|East Asia]], but then [[:en:Eastern Europe]] is another exception.) Maybe ''South Africa'' for the smaller entity reflects usage in some other language or languages. [[Usor:IacobusAmor|IacobusAmor]] 13:56, 14 Octobris 2011 (UTC)

 

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