Ἰαπετός
Ψεῦδος δὲ μισεῖ πᾶς σοφὸς καὶ χρήσιμος → Mendacium odit, qui vir est frugi et sapit → Die Lüge hasst der Weise und der Ehrenmann
French (Bailly abrégé)
οῦ (ὁ) :
Iapétos (Japet) père de Prométhée et d’Épiméthée.
Étymologie:.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Ἰᾰπετός: (ῑ) ὁ Иапет (один из Титанов, сын Урана и Геи, отец Атланта, Прометея, Эпиметея и Менэтия; как отец Прометея, считался родоначальником человечества) Hom., Hes.: πρεσβύτερος Ἰαπετοῦ погов. Luc. старше (самого) Иапета; Ἰαπετὸν καλεῖν τινα Arph. называть кого-л. Иапетом, т. е. дряхлым стариком.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: Iapetos (Il.)
Other forms: Ί- metr. lengthened.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: The name was connected with the biblical Japheth; thus recently M.L. West, Hes. Th. 134. The idea seems most improbable for a god thrown in Tartaros by Zeus. The name is often connected with ἰάπτω as "the one thrown off" (Θ 479, Hes. On the formation Schwyzer 502, Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 51 n. 1) with Ίαπετιονίδης (Hes.; Solmsen Unt. 58). The interpretation seems improbable to me (rather a mere guess). It seems obvious that the name, of a pre-Olympian god, is Pre-Greek. A suffix -ετος is found in Pre-Greek, Beekes, Pre-Greek, Suffixes nr. 42; Furnée 155 n. 2 mentions a demon ῎Ασβετός (which he compares with ῎Ασπετος ὁ Α᾽χιλλεὺς ἐν Η᾽πείρῳ H.); it is also found in GN, cf. Ταύγετον, Ταλετόν.
