Nepos

• Nep. (abbreviation)

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛ.poːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛː.pos]
• Homophone: nepōs

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)

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• French: Népos
• Italian: Nepote

• “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)

• 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