japoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Japō m (genitive Japōnis); third declension

1. (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 [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.