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Japo
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Latin
Noun
Japō<3.M.both>
la New Latin A Japanese person.
la 1695 Thomas le Blanc Psalmorum Davidicorum Analysis 5 16 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1sNfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA57 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
Japō<3.M.both>
Related terms
la Iapō̆nia
la iapō̆nicus
la Japan