Nepos

• Nep. (abbreviation)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈne.poːs/, [ˈnɛ.poːs]
• Homophone: nepōs

Nepōs m (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.

• 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