a. Also Japetic. [f. Japheth (or L. Japetus) + -IC.] Of or belonging to Japheth, one of the sons of Noah; descended or supposed to be descended from Japheth: sometimes applied to the Indo-European family.
1828. Webster, s.v., The Japhetic nations, which people the North of Asia and all Europe. Japhetic languages.
1842. Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man, 136. The Indo-European or Japetic people.
1865. W. Smith, O. Test. Hist. (1876), 37. The allusion to the light complexion of the Japhetic races.
1877. Dawson, Orig. World, xii. 260. A spontaneous growth of the Japetic stock scattered by the Cushite empire.
So Japhetite, also Japhethite, a descendant of Japheth.
1863. J. G. Murphy, Comm. Gen. ix. 25. The Persians, the Macedonians, and the Romans, who were all Japhethites.
1877. Dawson, Orig. World, xiii. 268. The Japhetites of the Bible include none of the black races.
