Iapetionides

From Ancient Greek [Term?], from Ἰαπετός (Iapetós) + -ίδης (-ídēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /iː.a.pe.tiːˈo.ni.deːs/, [iːäpɛt̪iːˈɔnɪd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.a.pe.tiˈo.ni.des/, [iäpet̪iˈɔːnid̪es]

Īapetīonidēs m (genitive Īapetīonidae); first declension

1. A patronymic for male descendants of Iapetus, particularly:
   1. Atlas (son of Iapetus, condemned to hold the heavens upon his shoulders for all eternity)
   2. Prometheus (son of Iapetus, brought fire to humans and consequently started civilization)
   3. Epimetheus (son of Iapetus, the more foolish of the twin brothers)

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

• Īapetus

• “Iapetionides”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press