Latin

Alternative forms

• Nep. abbreviation

Proper noun

Nepōs m ‎(genitive Nepōtis); third declension

1. A Roman masculine cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Cornelius Nepos (circa 110–25 BC), a Roman historian, a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Calullus, and the author of the work De Viris Illustribus
   2. Flavius Julius Nepos (circa AD 430–480), the penultimate Western Roman Emperor (r. 474/5–480)

Declension

Third declension.

Descendants

• French: Népos
• Italian: Nepote

References

• 2. Nĕpos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “2 Nĕpōs”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,025/1.
• “Nepōs²” on page 1,170/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Latin

Noun

nepōs m, f ‎(genitive nepōtis); third declension

1. a grandson
2. a granddaughter
3. a nephew
4. a descendant
5. (figuratively) a spendthrift, prodigal

Declension

Third declension.

Derived terms

• nepōtor

Synonyms

• (grandson): prōfīlius (Mediaeval)
• (granddaughter): neptis

Descendants

References

• 1. nĕpos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nepos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• NEPOS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “1 nĕpōs”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, pages 1,024–1,025.
• nepos in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nepos in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• nepos in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray