# nepos
## Latin

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atavia
atavus
abavia
abavus
proavia
proavus
avia
/ ava māterna
avus māternus
avia
/ ava paterna
avus paternus
cōnsobrīna
/ mātruēlis
cōnsobrīnus
/ mātruēlis
patruēlis
patruēlis
mātertera
avunculus
amita
patruus
/ barbās
māter
pater
sobrīna
/neptis
/neptia
sobrīnus
/ nepōs
frātruēlis
/neptis
/neptia
nepōs
/frātruus
/frātruēlis
sorōrius
/marītus sorōris
soror
frāter
frātria
/ uxor frātris
socrus
socer
/patraster
socrus
socer
/patraster
soror uxōris
frāter uxōris
glōs
lēvir
uxor
/marīta
/coniunx
/nūpta
marītus
/coniunx
gener
/ fīliaster
fīlia
/ nāta
fīlius
/ nātus
nurus
/ fīliastra
prōgener
neptis
/neptia
nepōs
prōnurus
proneptis
pronepōs
abneptis
abnepōs :

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈne.poːs/, [ˈnɛpoːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈne.pos/, [ˈnɛːpos]
* Homophone: Nepōs

### Noun

nepōs m or f (genitive nepōtis); third declension
* 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 [rush] here and there, and the youth of Troy – and Venus’s Dardan grandson – [they all] in fear seek separate shelters across the fields. (Venus’s grandson is Ascanius.)
* a granddaughter (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* a nephew
* a niece (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* a descendant
* (figuratively) a spendthrift, prodigal

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Hyponyms

* (nephew): sobrīnus

#### Coordinate terms

* neptis
* neptia

#### Derived terms

* abnepōs
* pronepōs
* nepōtor

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: nipot, nipoatã
** Romanian: nepot, nepoată
* Dalmatian:
** nepaut
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: nipote
** Sicilian: niputi
* North Italian:
** Emilian: anvod, nvod, nod, nevod, anvaud
** Friulian: nevôt
** Ligurian: nêvo, nêu
** Lombard: nèud, nèu, nevod
** Piedmontese: anvod, noud, nvod, nod, nòud, novó
** Romagnol: anvoud, nvoud, anvod
** Romansch: nev, neiv, neav, nevs
** Venetan: neodo, neoda, nevódo
* Gallo-Romance:
** Old French:
    Early: nevod
    Late: neveu (see there for further descendants)
** Walloon: neveu
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: nebot
** Occitan: nebot
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: nabodi, nebode, nebodi, nepode, nepote
* Ancient borrowings:
** →? Albanian: nip, nipë, nep (plural nipat)
** → Etruscan: nefts
* Later borrowings:
** → Danish: nevø
** → Maltese: neputi
** → Portuguese: nepote

### 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