Definition of "nepos" [nepos]

• See nepus. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The word nepotism is from the Latin word 'nepos', meaning "nephew" or "grandchild". shows up again. while: Biotrophic parasitism is an extremely common mode of life that has arisen independently many times in the course of evolution."
• "But the word nepos may also be applied to one who, like the prodigal, had lived riotously, and it may be, that Cogitosus, recalling some former lapses from virtue, so uses the word of himself."
• "Eidem postmod鵰 nostri temporis dux, vt sanguinis, ita & nominis h鎟es, ex filia nepos obuenit."