Iapys

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [iˈaː.pys] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iˈaː.pis] === 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)