nepos

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nepōts, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.

Pronunciation

Noun

nepōs m or f (genitive nepōtis); third declension

  1. a grandson
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.162-164:
      Et Tyriī comitēs passim et Troiāna iuventūs
      Dardaniusque nepōs Veneris dīversa per agrōs
      tēcta metū petiēre .
      And the Tyrian attendants here and there, and the youth of Troy – and Venus’s Dardan grandson – in fear seek separate shelters across the fields.
      (Venus’s grandson is Ascanius.)
  2. a granddaughter (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. a nephew
  4. a niece (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  5. a descendant
  6. (figuratively) a spendthrift, prodigal

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative nepōs nepōtēs
genitive nepōtis nepōtum
dative nepōtī nepōtibus
accusative nepōtem nepōtēs
ablative nepōte nepōtibus
vocative nepōs nepōtēs

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • 1 nĕpōs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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