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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
Iāpys m (genitive Iāpydis); third declension
- (quasi-adjectival) Iapydian
- 29 BC, P. Vergilius Maro (aut.), J.B. Greenough (ed.), Georgica in The Bucolics, Æneid, and Georgics of Virgil (1900), bk iii, ll. 474–477:
- Tum sciat, aerias Alpis et Norica si quis castella in tumulis et Iapydis arva Timavi nunc quoque post tanto videat desertaque regna pastorum et longe saltus lateque vacantis.
- Well would he trow it who, so long after, still high Alps and Noric hill-forts should behold, and Iapydian Timavus’ fields, ay, still behold the shepherds’ realms a waste, and far and wide the lawns untenanted. ― tr. ibidem
Declension
- Attested only in the genitive singular.
Third-declension noun.
References
- “Iāpys”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Iapys”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Iāpys in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 763/2.
- “Ĭāpys” on page 817/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)