Pronunciation
- IPA: /aɪˈæpɪtəs/
- (Greek god) A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
- (astronomy) The third largest moon of Saturn
- (geology) An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 184:
- So, in the early Ordovician, Iapetus was wide enough to have one side in high latitudes and the other in the tropics: a massive ocean, indeed.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 184:
- (ocean) Proto-Atlantic, Proto-Atlantic Ocean
- German: Japetus, Japetos, Iapetos
- Portuguese: Jápeto, Iápeto
- Russian: Я́пет
- French: Japet
- German: Japetus, Iapetus
- Italian: Giapeto
- Portuguese: Jápeto
- Russian: Я́пет
- Spanish: Jápeto
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