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- noun See
nepus .
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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.
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Olaus Rogwaldi F. 1458 Pr鎑icti Godschalchi ex sorore nepos, vterque Noruagus, eligitur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Vnde ante electionem ipsius Cuynch propter hoc vnus de principibus, nepos ipsius Cyngis can fuit occissus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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De mortus Olai nepos ex fratre, et ille Noruagus, eligitur eodem anno quo patruus decessit.
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De mortus Olai nepos ex fratre, et ille Noruagus, eligitur eodem anno quo patruus decessit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Eidem postmod鵰 nostri temporis dux, vt sanguinis, ita & nominis h鎟es, ex filia nepos obuenit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Olaus Rogwaldi F. 1458 Prædicti Godschalchi ex sorore nepos, vterque Noruagus, eligitur.
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Abr. 1863 = B.C. 154, 'Pacuvius Brundusinus tragoediarum scriptor clarus habetur, Ennii poetae ex filia nepos, vixitque Romae quoad picturam exercuit ac fabulas venditavit, deinde Tarentum transgressus prope nonagenarius diem obiit.'
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Medocius, by one "Lossio Veda, nepos [= kin of] Vepogeni, Caledo."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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