Japan (en)

Solum Japan Anglice ab hac subpagina tractatur. Vide etiam s.v. japan.

“Natio ortus solis.” Ab origine Sinice 日本国 (rìběn-guó, Japonia natio), fortasse via Lusitane Japão.

Japan

1. Japonia (-ae, f.)

Nomina alia

• Nihon, Nippon (← 日本, Japoniae nomen Japonicus)
• Yamato (poetice; ← 大和, Japonia antiqua)

• Japanese

saec. XVII.

• 1619: AMONGST other coũtryes which were unknowne to us of Europe untill in this later age they were diſcouered by the Spaniardes & Portugalls , one is Iapone under which name be conteyned diuers Ilandes lying in the eaſt Ocean of the great Kingdome of China , a chief prouince of Aſia [...] — A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books, W. W. Gent