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.

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

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