Nepos

See also: nepos

Latin

Alternative forms

• Nep. (abbreviation)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈne.poːs/, [ˈnɛpoːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈne.pos/, [ˈnɛːpos]
• Homophone: nepōs

Proper noun

Nepōs m sg (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 noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Nepōs
Genitive	Nepōtis
Dative	Nepōtī
Accusative	Nepōtem
Ablative	Nepōte
Vocative	Nepōs

Descendants

• French: Népos
• Italian: Nepote

References

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

Further reading

• Nepos (cognomen) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Cornelius Nepos on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Flavius Julius Nepos on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la