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neptis

neptis · f

a granddaughter

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Where it lives

Divus Augustus 8 · 5.97/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Divus Julius 2 · 2.05/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Letters 9 · 1.39/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Annales 10 · 1.13/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

neptis — Lewis & Short

neptis, is, f. (like nepos, orig. comm.; as

I masc., still found in an inscr.: C. COELIO VERO NEPTI, Inscr. Murat. 692, 2; cf. nepos as fem. in class. Lat. exclusively) [1. nepos], a granddaughter: filii, filiae, nepotes, neptes, Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85: neptes Licinias, id. Brut. 58, 211: vestis ab uxore et filiā, neptibusque confecta, Suet. Aug. 73; 31: neptis Veneris, i. e. Ino, Ov. M. 4, 530: doctas Cybeleia, neptes vidit, i. e. the Muses, id. F. 4, 191; Juv. 6, 265.—Acc.: neptim, Curt. 6, 2, 7.—Abl.: nepti, Tac. A. 3, 24.—Gen. plur.: neptium, Just. Inst. 3, 1, 15 Krüg.—Also, a niece, Spart. Hadr. 2; cf. 1, nepos init.

In the wild

neptem Suetonius, Divus Augustus 65.1
neptis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.35.p8
nepte Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 107.13
neptem Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.1.1
neptem Historia Augusta, Gordiani Tres 6
neptem Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.29

6 of 61 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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