nepos
See also: Nepos
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *nepōts, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈne.poːs/, [ˈnɛpoːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈne.pos/, [ˈnɛːpos]
- Homophone: Nepōs
Noun edit
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.)
- 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.
- Et Tyriī comitēs passim et Troiāna iuventūs
- a granddaughter
- a nephew
- a niece
- a descendant
- (figuratively) a spendthrift, prodigal
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nepōs | nepōtēs |
Genitive | nepōtis | nepōtum |
Dative | nepōtī | nepōtibus |
Accusative | nepōtem | nepōtēs |
Ablative | nepōte | nepōtibus |
Vocative | nepōs | nepōtēs |
Synonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- (nephew): sōbrīnus
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
- Later borrowings:
References edit
- “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[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “nepos”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray