Nepos

Nepos is a Latin word originally meaning “grandson” or “descendant", that evolved with time to signify "nephew". The word gives rise to the term nepotism.

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It may also refer to:

  • Cornelius Nepos, a Roman biographer
  • Julius Nepos, sometimes considered the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
  • Aulus Platorius Nepos, governor of Britannia under Hadrian
  • Nepos (Roman governor), during the reign of the emperor Trajan
  • Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (consul 57 BC), a Roman politician
  • The apocryphal Book of Nepos, written by an Egyptian bishop of the same name
  • Nepos, a village in Feldru Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania
  • Jakob Näf, a literary collaborator of Erasmus in Basel[broken anchor]
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