Iaponia
Appearance
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Iaponia
- Alternative spelling of Japonia
- 1619, W. W. Gent, A Briefe Relation of the Persecution Lately Made Against the Catholike Crhstians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, volume 1, page 6:
- becauſe theſe moſt worthy Chriſtiãs of Iaponia whereof this relatiõ doth entreate be of the ſame Chriſtian and Catholike Fayth and Religon[sic] that you be
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From possibly French Japon + -ia or Cantonese 日本 (jat6 bun2) + -ia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /i̯aˈpoː.ni.a/, [i̯äˈpoːniä] or IPA(key): /i̯aˈpo.ni.a/, [i̯äˈpɔniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /jaˈpo.ni.a/, [jäˈpɔːniä]
Proper noun
[edit]Iapō̆nia f sg (genitive Iapō̆niae); first declension
Usage notes
[edit]- There is no unity among those users of New Latin who distinguish vowel length as to whether the "o" of the stem should be long or short; further, the form Iappōnia is also found.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Iapō̆nia |
genitive | Iapō̆niae |
dative | Iapō̆niae |
accusative | Iapō̆niam |
ablative | Iapō̆niā |
vocative | Iapō̆nia |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants
- → Albanian: Japoni, Japonia
- → Belarusian: Японія (Japónija)
- → Bulgarian: Япония (Japonija)
- ⇒ Czech: Japonsko
- → Greek: Ιαπωνία (Iaponía)
- ⇒ Kashubian: Japóńskô
- → Lithuanian: Japonija
- → Macedonian: Јапонија (Japonija)
- → Polish: Japonia
- → Romanian: Japonia
- → Russian: Япония (Japonija), Япо́нія (Japónija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- ⇒ Slovak: Japonsko
- ⇒ Slovene: Japonska
- → Ukrainian: Японія (Japonija)
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- New Latin
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