Japo
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]Japō m (genitive Japōnis); third declension
- (New Latin) A Japanese person.
- 1695, Thomas le Blanc, Psalmorum Davidicorum Analysis […], volume 5, column 16:
- Sic inter se communicant Sinæ Japones, Cochinchimi & aliqui alii populi libros suos intelligentes, licet cum eos legunt, nec Sina Japonem, nec Japo Sinam intelligat, quia diversum prorsus idioma legendo profert unus ab alio.
- The Chinese, Japanese, Cochinchinese and certain other peoples communicate with each other in this way, understanding their books, albeit when they read them [out], the Chinese will not understand the Japanese, nor the Japanese the Chinese, because, in reading, the one utters a totally different idiom from the other.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Japō | Japōnēs |
| genitive | Japōnis | Japōnum |
| dative | Japōnī | Japōnibus |
| accusative | Japōnem | Japōnēs |
| ablative | Japōne | Japōnibus |
| vocative | Japō | Japōnēs |