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japhetic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
japhet-ic
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to the supposed descendants of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible.

Obsolete

adj

Of or pertaining to the supposed languages spoken by the descendants of Japheth.

Obsolete

Etymology

The English Japheth or the Latin Iapetus, + -ic. Coined in the first half of the 19th century alongside Semitic and Hamitic.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more Japhetic (comparative) most Japhetic (superlative) Iapetic (alternative) Japhethic (alternative)

Synonyms

Japhetite Japhethitic Japhetitic

Questions

What does japhetic mean?
Of or pertaining to the supposed descendants of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible.
Where does japhetic come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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