Iapetus

[ ahy-ap-i-tuhs, ee-ap- ]

noun

Classical Mythology. a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaia.
Astronomy. a natural satellite of the planet Saturn.

Origin of Iapetus

First recorded in 1600–20; Latin Īapetus, from Greek Īapetós; further origin uncertain; probably from the same source as Hebrew Yepheth; see origin at Japheth

Words Nearby Iapetus

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How to use Iapetus in a sentence

There followed after these the old and monstrous Titan, who had with him the proud and audacious Iapetus, his son.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects | Giorgio Vasari
But the noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | Homer and Hesiod
He was the son of Iapetus and Clymene, one of the Oceanides.
The Student's Mythology | Catherine Ann White
The presumptuous son of Iapetus, by an impious fraud, brought down fire into the world.
The Works of Horace | Horace
The view of Saturn was awesome, even from Iapetus' orbit two million miles away.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen Wollheim

British Dictionary definitions for Iapetus

Iapetus

/ (aɪˈæpɪtəs) /

noun

a large outer satellite of the planet Saturn

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