africia

Possibly from grātia (“grace, thankfulness”) +‎ -illa (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈfrɪ.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈfriː.t͡ʃi.a]

āfricia f (genitive āfriciae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, rare) a type of cake used in sacrifices

   c. 303 CE, Arnobius, Against the Pagans 7.24:

   Quid fitilla, quid frumen, quid africia, quid gratilla, catumeum, conspolium, cubula? [....] Series vero, quae sequitur, liborum significantias continet

   What is the meaning of fitilla, frumen, africia, gratilla, catumeum, cumspolium, cubula? [....] while the series of names which follows denotes consecrated cakes.

First-declension noun.

• Aromanian: afreatsã

• "africia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)