Nepos Explained

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