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Latin
Noun
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 , 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
Third-declension noun.