NEPOTE NOUN 1. a nephew ...1519 Sc. obs. 2. a grandson ...a1525 Sc. obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin nepōt-, nepōs (grandson, descendant, a prodigal) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1519 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...James commendator of Arbroth lets for five years from Lammess 1520 to his cowsyng and nepot Jhone of Betown of the Chreych the teind-sheaves of the kirk of Dunbog - paying yearly £100 Scots, namely, £50 at the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross called Beltyme 1521, and other £50 at Lammess following..." From: Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc Registrorum Abbacie de Aberbrothoc, Pars Altera Registrum Nigrum Necnon Libros Cartarum Recentiores Complectens. 1329-1536 - C. Innes and Patrick Chalmers, 1856
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